Updated on February 10, 2025 at 6:54 pm
President Trump said on Monday that the Gaza ceasefire should be canceled if all Israeli hostages aren’t released by noon on Saturday.
“If all the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 o’clock, I think it’s an appropriate time. I would say cancel it, and all bets are off. Let hell break out,” Trump said. He stressed that all remaining Israeli hostages should be released by Saturday, which is not part of the deal.
Trump said that the decision was up to Israel, but his comments suggest he’s ready to back Israel if it restarts its genocidal war on Gaza.
Trump’s comments came after the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing announced that the next Israeli hostage release has been postponed until “further notice,” citing Israeli ceasefire violations.
Since the ceasefire went into effect on January 19, Israeli forces have killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza, including three who were killed on Sunday while trying to return to their homes near Gaza City. Gaza officials have said Israel has also not let in sufficient aid deliveries into Gaza, including materials needed to provide temporary housing for Palestinians.
“The leadership of the resistance has monitored the enemy’s violations and failure to abide by the terms of the agreement during the past three weeks; from delaying the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Strip, and not allowing relief supplies of all kinds to enter as agreed upon, while the resistance has implemented all its obligations,” Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’s Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.
Obeida said the next hostage release scheduled for February 15 is delayed until “the occupation commits to and compensates for the entitlements of the past weeks retroactively, and we affirm our commitment to the terms of the agreement as long as the occupation commits to them.”
Later in the day, Hamas released another statement saying that it announced its intention to delay the hostage exchange to give mediators time to get Israel to live up to its end of the ceasefire.
“Hamas’s intention in releasing this statement five days before the date scheduled for the release of the captives is to allow the mediators enough time to pressure the occupation to fulfill its commitments, and to keep the door open for the exchange to take place on time. As long as the occupation meets its obligations,” Hamas said.
In response to Hamas’s announcement, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said it was a “complete violation of the ceasefire agreement and hostage deal” and ordered the Israeli military to be on “the highest level of alert for any possible scenario in Gaza and to protect the [Gaza border] communities.”
Hamas’s announcement came a day after Haaretz reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to sabotage the ceasefire deal and that the Israeli negotiators in Qatar aren’t expected to bring the deal into its second phase. One Israeli source said that once Hamas realizes there won’t be a second phase, it “may not complete the first.”
One reason why Hamas may suspect there won’t be a second phase is President Trump announcing his intention for the US to “take over” Gaza and remove the Palestinians permanently. Since Palestinians don’t want to leave Gaza, the plan would require Israel to restart its genocidal war.
Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, told Al Jazeera that Israel was “intentionally sabotaging” the ceasefire deal. “We are committed to the ceasefire agreement, we have done our part. We have fulfilled all our obligations and we are still committed and we are working to avoid any obstacles and overcome any challenges. The Israelis are intentionally sabotaging the deal and undermining the agreement,” he said.
Itamar Ben Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Power party who quit the Netanyahu government over the ceasefire deal, has called for Israel to immediately start bombing Gaza.
“Hamas’s announcement should have one real-life response: a massive fire attack on Gaza, from the air and land, alongside a complete halt to humanitarian aid to the Strip, including electricity, fuel, and water, and including the bombing of aid packages that have already been brought in and are in Hamas’ hands in Gaza,” Ben Gvir wrote on X. “We must return to war and destroy.”
Israel needs to put some speed behind the ball!…
A disturbingly deranged person. The product of unabridged supremacy that corrupts. The very definition of the madness of the heart.
This is a challenge for Trump. He needs no escallation thst can get out of. control. But Israel is used to jerking US administrations, making them lose control and into knee jerk reactions. Let us see if Trump becomes the latest victim.
He already is!
Some say he is not, he is playing 5D chess and stabbing Netanyahu in the back in the end. Does not look like it though.
If that really is what he is doing he will lose his Christian base, calling him the Anti-Christ.
Trump does not have the intellect to play 1D chess if his life depended on it.
“Hamas’s announcement should have one real-life response: a massive fire attack on Gaza, from the air and land, alongside a complete halt to humanitarian aid to the Strip, including electricity, fuel, and water, and including the bombing of aid packages that have already been brought in and are in Hamas’ hands in Gaza,” Ben Gvir wrote on X. “We must return to war and destroy.”
At one time I thought this guy was an outlier. That was back when I could call myself antiwar. The rabid dog needs to be put down.
Results of polls in Israel show that:
2/3of Israelis believe that IDF soldiers, prison guards, and intel agencies should be able to rape Palestinian prisoners at will
3/4 felt that the IDF wasn't using enough force in Gaza
2/3 thought that NO food or water should be allowed into Gaza, condemning 2 1/2 million people to starve to death
Only THREE PERCENT felt that the US taking Gaza away from its native population was morally wrong.
It's a sick, sick society.
This is, of course, a lie
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/israeli-opinion-poll-mistranslated-saying-soldiers-should-rape-prisoners-2024-08-30/
Except, it isn't.
Simply because you have Lies and Truth backwards in your head, does not mean Reality and the rest of us do, too.
Translation:
I didn’t read the Reuters article but I have complete faith in my “reality”.
You’re not too wise “Sapiens”
There’s a saying : “Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.”
I easily and readily apply this to anything you say.
Ditto dummy
Getting your information from social media (the source of this false story) shows your claims are fatally biased and lack any credibility or objectivity.
Supporting Hamas – which is part of the Nazi government-supported Muslim Brotherhood – seems to be your priority. Suit yourself.
So Ha’aretz is “social media” now? It was their own bloody polls that I was referring to.
The polls were misrepresented on X.
X is social media.
Provide a link or admit you are clueless.
So you’re going to lie. We’re done.
Trump has NOT said the Palestinians must leave Gaza. The author continues to make that up. The assistance of the USA in Gaza, which blocks the zionists from more destruction, will be of great benefit to the Palestinians.
I think we should take note of the things this author writes, then later cite his incorrectness. Biden is the person that allowed Gaza to be leveled.
"Trump has NOT said the Palestinians must leave Gaza." No, he's said something like the Palestinians are being taken to a farm upstate where a nice lady is going to take care of them forever.
lol.
It's just been announced the Palestinians have no right to return to Gaza. See my post above.
Trump, said that the Palestinians should leave and not return. While not using the word "must" his words mean the same.
"I think we should take note of the things this author writes" We? Why don't you do that?
Trump says no right of return for Palestinians in Gaza under his plan for US ‘ownership’ https://apnews.com/article/trump-gaza-jordan-egypt-fox-palestinians-be4c67e124f7b8c7d5ad95231fc625a8
"Less than a week after he floated his plan for the U.S. to take control of Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” Trump, in an interview with FOX News’ Bret Baier that was set to air on Monday, said “No, they wouldn’t” when asked if Palestinians in Gaza would have a right to return to the territory. It comes as he has ramped up pressure on Arab states, especially U.S. allies Jordan and Egypt, to take in Palestinians from Gaza, who claim the territory as part of a future homeland."
If anybody here thinks there will be justice and change may see right now there will be change but not for the better. All of Trump's decrees will be tied up in courts for years; that's how the system works to avoid any change the courts are against. The Fed. Courts are the fatal flaw in the Constitution because the judges are appointed by the party in power and not by the people's vote.
"US President Donald Trump has said the two million Palestinians who would be resettled in neighbouring countries under his plan to take over and rebuild the Gaza Strip would have no right of return.
"No, they wouldn't, because they're going to have much better housing," he told Fox News. "I'm talking about building a permanent place for them."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn57neepx4vo
Notice, you don't see trump wanting to move them to the USA. South Florida would work. How about Texas, it is nice and big.
So, Timothy, let's get you on the record again.
You have claimed that if Hamas releases all prisoners, the Israeli war against Gaza will end.
Willing to double-down on your assertion ? Confirm your belief that the IDF destruction of Gaza was and is ONLY to rescue the hostages ?
I said it should end, never said it will end. My idea is that once the hostages are let go, Israel should leave Gaza and seal the border. And let Gaza do what it wants to do. I never said that Israel will do that.
Trump is the new wild card that wants to solve the Israel Palestinians problem by getting rid of the Palestinians. Trump has abandon years of US policy that there should be a two state solution.
Look at you, backpedalling furiously.
“Should” was never in your equations. You asserted it as something of an obvious fact – that if Hamas wants the war in Gaza to end, they have to release all hostages and then (your vaunted) Israel would (definitely, we inferred from your certainty) end the war.
You DO have advantage right now, Major – I’m at work with only my mobile for several more hours, giving you LOTS of time to scurry back through your Disqus history and quickly edit all your “certainty” statements into “should” statements.
Won’t do anything for the screen-caps of your “release hostages = definite end to war” comments I have stored on PC at home. Or the many other Commenters on here who ALSO saw you repeat this bold assertion that I thiiiiink you’re discovering is about to be proven as false by the ASI and IDF.
lol. Actually that is a good sign that he is flip flopping. May be ever so little he si changing or the better. One can only hope.
He’s afraid his own words are about to prove himself wrong. He, jake, Almond, Odetta, and the other regular Apartheid State of Israel apologists never thought the day would come when their beloved ASI would expose its own lies, and by proxy, theirs.
They constantly parroted the “well all Hamas has to do is release all the hostages and the killing / ethnic cleansing stops” and this weekend, either way Hamas decides to act, will prove that assertion “complete bulls**t”.
That's part of their contorted psyche that they can't admit (at least to others) that it was all about colonizing and displacing the land's indigenous population from day one. We sounded the alarm decades ago. Oct. 7th has exposed them to the world. That's why the forces of occupation and the resistance are now clear for the world to see and judge.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said it was a “complete violation of the ceasefire agreement and hostage deal”.
projection and gaslighting.
Never before has the world seen a more narcissistic nation
Trump says US might lose patience with cease-fire deal https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-says-us-might-lose-patience-with-ceasefire-deal/ar-AA1yJTC8
So, what happens then? US military intervention to 'save the hostages?'
Why not? The hostages included American citizens; Biden should have sent the US military in, but he didn't have the sack to do so.
We did this against Al-Qaeda and against ISIS. Same thing.
How many American citizens is the Israeli regime holding hostage? Are Borak and Hashem Alagha still among them?
Assisting a designated terrorist organization (Hamas) is a crime.
"It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide “material support or resources” to a designated FTO." (FTO = foreign terrorist organization").
Hamas is a FTO and these brothers are accused of assisting them.
https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/#:~:text=It%20is%20unlawful%20for%20a,resources%E2%80%9D%20to%20a%20designated%20FTO.
Are you suggesting that the corpse of a flautist grandmother from New York is guilty of an equivalent crime under US law?
Also, the U.S. State Department estimated 32 Americans were killed on Oct 7. A Congressional report increased that number to at least 35, and most recently, as part of a U.S. Department of Justice federal indictment of Hamas’ leadership, at least 43 U.S. nationals were declared dead.
https://www.ajc.org/news/meet-the-six-american-hostages-still-held-by-hamas#:~:text=The%20American%20families%20whose%20sons,only%20wish%20in%20two%20languages.
So, after killing "at least" 43 US nationals, your concern is about…the people who assisted those who killed 43 US nationals…Sure, that makes sense. And they should put that granny's corpse in prison, too!
Those two aren't being held by the US regime for crimes under US law.
They're being held by the Israeli regime as hostages.
Separate issue. The discussion was on the American policy toward Hamas, which murders US citizens.
Arresting people who support the murder of US citizens is what allies should do, isn't it? Would you prefer that Israel release those who contribute to the deaths of 43 Americans?
Also, technically a hostage is someone held as security for the fulfillment of a condition. The two brothers were arrested, based on alleged illegal behavior; no conditions were set for their release, as occurs with hostages.
I agree that regimes which murder American citizens — such as the Hamas regime and the Israeli regime — should not receive support from the US regime.
What ever happen to those two?
The US funded the terrorist Al-Qaeda as I understand the war.
The US does change sides sometimes – we worked with the Soviets in WWII, then we worked against them. We supported Islamic militants in Afghanistan, but fought them after 9/11. It's all about strategy, and what helps/hurts the United States.
In this case, there is nothing that Hamas offers the United States. They are part of Muslim Brotherhood, which is fighting our ally Egypt ,and which was aligned with Nazi Germany in the 1940s; they are dedicated to the destruction of a US ally (Israel) and they actively seek to murder them; they illegally occupy Gaza, having taken it away from the PA, which the US recognizes and works with; they are designated a terrorist group by the US; they work with and are supported by Iran, which chants "Death to America!" on a regular basis; and so on.
So, there is nothing good about Hamas for the US. The US (like much of the world, including the EU, Egypt, and others) had hoped that Israel would remove Hamas from Gaza, but that may take a few more bombs to finish the job. It sounds like Trump wants to help.
Trump Enrages Christian MAGA By Naming ‘Heretic’ Pastor to White House https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-enrages-christian-maga-naming-224833273.html
President Donald Trump angered some of his Christian supporters on Friday when he named a televangelist who even some conservative evangelicals have labeled a “heretic” as part of his White House administration. The president signed an executive order establishing a White House Faith Office and chose Pastor Paula White-Cain, his ally and spiritual advisor, to lead it. White-Cain, 58, is a megachurch preacher from Florida who has endorsed biblical interpretations that some evangelical Christians believe go too far. White is the longtime personal spiritual advisor to Trump. She is a proponent of “prosperity theology,” which teaches that God rewards the truly faithful with material wealth and personal success. Critics say that by blaming financial woes on a lack of faith, prosperity theology can be used to exploit vulnerable churchgoers. Many Christians consider it a form of heresy, according to The New York Times.
She's also a Christian Zionist and carbon copy of that Howdy Doody from Hell, Jim Bakker. What happened to the church and state thingy??
Rev.13:11-18 is taking shape. Shortly enforced worship will start in the US and then spread to the entire earth. In Rev.14 is given the final warnings of false worship before God's wrath. This age is quickly coming to a close.
Revelation was written in 2nd century CE about the Roman Empire, which was evidently in decline. It has zero prophetic quality.
Hells, biblical scholarship holds its authorship as anonymous, with church tradition only ascribing it to "St. John". Who I think invented the wort.
So now America will be lead by a white cane religion. Suitable.
Trump's family was not very religious but they did attend the Norman Vincent Peale church of positive thinking – a foregoer for the prosperity gospels all over now. These modern guys and a couple of women are all filthy rich.
In general though almost all Christians are with Trump on the Israel thing to make it into "Greater Israel" for Jesus to return. Huckabee is elated the way things are progressing.
Exact right.
1. Help Israel regain prophecised glory.
2. Start the End Times.
3. Jesus returns.
4. All Jewish people convert to Proper True Christianity.
5. Jesus rules a new Heavenly Kingdom on Earth™ and things somehow manage to get even better for Christians.
You might have noticed on particular point of the Generalised Evangelical Future Vision (rhymes in "point four") that Judaism might screech to a halt over…
"…endorsed biblical interpretations that some evangelical Christians believe go too far…"
Lard tunderin', I literally cannot imagine what Evangelicals think is "too far" for a biblical interpretation…!!!!
Reports emerge that during the Super Bowl, Trump was rooting for the NEw Jersey Generals
America should put all judges up for election to make republicans happy when they're in charge and for them to whine about the commie tyrannical dems usupring the constitution when they AREN'T in power
Republican
Somewhere between "Hypocrite" and "Jingoist" in the dictionary
Once again, western politicians and western media have ignored the repeated Israeli ceasefire violations but now they blaming the Palestinians as usual.
We know who owns the corporate media, so no one should be surprised.
Aye, there’s the rub…
The state of Israel does not own the corporate media, nor any media. Apparently, you have no idea how the world works.
The state of Israel owns SOME media (IBC/KAN), and by law maintains censorship power over all media operating in Israel.
Wannabe ethnic cleanser and Felon in Chief wants to ignite a whole new wave of Middle East wars, with the American military in its midst.
He thinks to out-Himmler the Jewish Himmler in order to suck up to Zio-shekels. A thoroughly revolting spectacle.
Nothing changes with the Zionists.
Deceit, lies, and more deceit.
Something like 97% of Israelis have bought into the genocide, forgetting the idea that "never again" means never again for ANYONE.
Unfortunately, American society is on par with the Israelis, having been fed the lies for 75 years.
The Holocaust was horrible for 6 million Jews (over a 6 year period). It was also horrible for 5.5 million non-Jews over the same period.
Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust. Why should they undergo another Nakbha, or something much worse. Genocide, ethnic cleansing.
Remember the Liberty!
We sounded the alarm decades ago.
What utter nonsense.
First of all, the Muslim Brotherhood had a lot to do with the Holocaust; they were supported and inspired directly by the Nazi government in the 1930s and 1940s. Palestinian leaders like the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (and future Yasser Arafat mentor) al-Husseini met with and praised Hitler, and he recruited thousands of Muslims for the SS. He also toured Nazi death camps.
Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and they express and teach their children Nazi ideology. Just read the Hamas charter – it is right out of Mein Kampf.
Trump is not talking about exterminating Palestinians – just relocating them. Gaza has belonged to various groups over the centuries, and there is nothing about it that makes it inherently the property of Hamas, which isn't even a real government.
And the USS Liberty? What does an incident from the middle of a war 58 years ago have to do with today? What about Pearl Harbor? Or the War of 1812, when the British burned the White House?
To follow that logic why should the Holocaust in a war almost 80 years ago have any relevance today? Does "never again" not apply to all people? Are the lives of Palestinians not as valuable as the lives of Jews? Are their children not? While I do not,many of my friends follow a religion founded by a Palestinian refugee child 2000 years ago. If you think He would be in favor of this war,the bombing and murder of women, children,and civilians, one of us has seriously failed to understand His teachings.If it's me,I am humbly grateful to be Buddhist.
Your logic is extremely flawed.
1. You are comparing the deliberate, ethnic-based slaughter of millions of men, women, and children in industrialized death camps to the 34 people who died on the US – during a war? That is not a serious argument, especially when the issue is the US-Israel alliance, which is based on mutual benefits. It would be more accurate to look at the British sinking the French fleet in WWII, in which 1,297 French sailors died; however, the UK and France are now allies.
2. Hitler felt that Jews were genetically inferior people with an inevitable tendency toward evil. and they they poisoned any society they were in, and they must be expelled. This belief was taught to the Nazi-supported Muslim Brotherhood – which Hamas is part of – and this viewpoint is reflected in the charter (and actions) of Hamas.
Meanwhile, Israeli Arabs are protected by the Israeli constitution, and have more freedoms and health than Arabs in other countries.
3. Jesus was not a "Palestinian", as there was no Palestine in ancient times. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which was part of the Kingdom of Judea. Jesus was a Jew. He was circumcised and he celebrated Jewish holidays, such as Passover. The people who call themselves "Palestinians" have no connection to the Kingdom of Judea or Jesus. They are Arabs who immigrated to the region, mostly from Syria and Egypt. The Arab conquest of Jerusalem didn't even occur until 635 AD, six centuries after Jesus; the Crusaders retook the area, then various Muslim and Turkish empires conquered the region until the British conquest around WWI.
Yes, Jesus was a Jew.
A Palestinian Jew.
Just like the 70% of Israeli Jews born in Palestine.
Although, prior to the 20th century, the only people who were called "Palestinians" were Jews born in Palestine. The Arab Palestinian identity formed in response to the late 19th/early 20th century aliyah.
Yes, Jesus was a Jew.
A Palestinian Jew.
Just like the 70% of Israeli Jews born in Palestine.
Although, prior to the 20th century, the only people who were called "Palestinians" were Jews born in Palestine. The Arab Palestinian identity formed in response to the late 19th/early 20th century aliyah.
Still lying to people after I have responded to this nonsense over and over again. The Israelis believe Palestinians are inferior. Admit it, and then you can move on with your life. Stop lying about the MB. You don't know what you are talking about. It was called Palestine for over two thousand years. When Christians pick up a bible and open to the map, it doesn't say Israel. And some Palestinians may have been Jews who converted to Islam. So what. Just stop lying.
Stop lying about the MB. Ask someone who knows. I have represented them. Worked with them. Observed them and studied them.
Hey, it's not my problem if you can't handle the truth. The connections between the Muslim Brotherhood and Nazi Germany are well-documented:
" From 1935 onward, the Brotherhood sent delegations to the Nazis’ rallies in Nuremberg. In 1938, they led demonstrations against Egyptian Jews and held the Parliamentary Conference for Arab and Muslim Countries in Cairo, where they distributed Arabic translations of selections from Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In 1939 they bombed a Cairo synagogue and ransacked Jewish homes. With the outbreak of the war, the Nazis enjoyed their full support. When King Farouk granted asylum to Nazi war criminal Haj Amin al-Husseini on 20 June 1946, al-Banna hailed the former Mufti of Jerusalem as a hero and a great Jihadist. Al-Husseini also had meetings with Sayyid Qutb, the man who would become the Brotherhood’s most influential Jihadist ideologue. In al-Husseini, then, we have an important link between the Nazis and Hamas."
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/from-hitler-to-hamas-a-genealogy-of-evil/#_ednref8
You can't deny easily verifiable facts, such as the use of the "Protocols" in the Hamas Charter.
https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/880818a.htm
"Such was al-Banna’s hero worship of the Nazi leader, he had Hitler’s autobiography and political anthology, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), translated into Arabic, changing the title to My Jihad.
"Al-Banna was so obsessed with the Nazis, he also had copies of their anti-Semitic newspaper Der Sturmer, a tabloid published by the infamous Jew hating Julius Streicher, adapted to suit the Arab world, with its despicable anti-Semitic cartoons."
https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2018/06/27/ANALYSIS-The-Nazi-roots-of-Muslim-Brotherhood
So, whatever you may or may not believe, these are easily verifiable facts. Facts are facts.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the Nazis share the same values.
Genocide in Gaza and the war in Ukraine started before Trump took office but he contributed a lot for the escalation of both those conflicts. In his first term he delivered huge amount of weapons to Kiev regime and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Orange Jebus is gunna Save America and bring World Peace
Cheap laughs, I know
No matter what Trump does, we win. Either his bullying of American lackeys (Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia) buys time for the resistance to recoup and prepare for the next big war, or he over plays his hands and regional war ensues. One thing is sure. Neither Israel nor American presence in the Middle East can survive a regional conflict.
Wishful thinking at pick levels.
American presence can simply return when the dust settles.
based on history, Israel hurts its neighbors whenever they are hurt in an exponential level.
hoping for a regional war that will end Israel is unrealistic and suicidal.
At worst, the mid east will become a radioactive wasteland.
At best, it will become a real-estate opportunity for Elon and Trump.
Time will tell. History is an indication. The decision to go to war and the level of violence has been determined by the Occupier and its benefactor.
"The decision to go to war and the level of violence has been determined by the Occupier and its benefactor" That makes no sense.
Read my latest article in EI about Mandela's quote. The Zionists stole the land and decided how to administer their occupation. Violence begets violence. Israel was established by war and will be abolished by war. Not because I want it that way but because Israel does.
We live in crazy, bizarre times, anything can happen.
Maybe the people will rise and kick all of them to join with Musk on Mars and little green men and never come back.
We can only hope you are right.
If everyone hopes… it would have a powerful outcome…!
But its not just hope. Didn't you see how Hamas treated its captives compared to Israel? The men were given less food but the women were taken care of as best as could be done under the brutality of Israeli bombing. They didn't humiliate, torture or sodomize them like Israel does. If I had seen any justice, decency, fairness from Zionists, I would have submitted a long time ago. They're just not nice people and their oppression will not last. All the odds are against them. They live among a sea of Arabs and Muslims. The less they behave the faster that part of the earth will reject and vomit them up. And America who couldn't win in Afghanistan can't do anything about it.
"Didn't you see how Hamas treated its captive" I did, not very good. Just asked the ralatives of the ones Hamas killed when the IDF was getting close to rescuing them.
Are you sure you’re not confusing him with the Israeli who was waving a white flag with the IDF gunned him down in broad daylight?
As I told you the truth does not hurt me. Nor should it hurt you unless you are immune to it. Hamas on its own accord disclosed that one of its guards killed a captive after learning his family had been killed by Israel in a bombing. I don't know about the incident you are talking about, but given the fact that Israel killed about 200 Palestinians to save four hostages tells what type of dirty people Hamas is dealing with. Netanyahu wanted all those hostages dead so that he could annihilate Gaza. Hamas would have treated them better but given they were forced into tunnels, food was cut off and Israel was bombing, they did a pretty hood job under the circumstances. @oded_samuel:disqus@disqus_qhuce9v5DO:disqus@disqus_E05j4B3lQf:disqus
I agree, I have yet to see credible evidence of war crimes committed by Hamas, but tons of evidence of war crimes committed by the IDF and the AF. Gaza alone speaks for itself, how can one describe the inhumanity, the evil of those people?
I don't require victims or those wronged to be perfect, especially if their imperfection is plausibly tied to the original crime perpetrated against them. On top of that Hamas in the past has welcomed International and independent inquiries and investigations of alleged war crimes, etc. Its Israel that has always refused. They have also been willing to submit to the jurisdiction of the ICC/ICJ. Because at the end of the day they feel what they do is self defense, even if innocents are hurt/killed in the process. If the occupation ends, the blowback ends.
Finally, it is clear that Hamas adheres to Islamic humanitarian law which prohibits the targeting of women and children, and non combatants in general. They also stand out in the way they treat captives, etc.
Wars brutalize young men and women and they will commit violent crimes. I agree with you, there is a big difference of individual and organized, official instigated war crimes. There is no evidence Hamas committed war crimes. There are no victims and no witnesses but evidence of organized lies and propaganda originated by the Israelis. Even UN rapporteurs could not find any evidence, no victims and no witnesses that is what they reported, no evidence at all.
Agreed.
You have a great deal of confidence in your co-religionists. I’m afraid to tell you that Israel will remain. These last 15 months have made Israel stronger and the “axis of resistance” much weaker. Talk is cheap. That’s all we hear from Iran and her friends.
You're good at repeating Western Media…!
Maybe you should read something other than Al Jazeera and Mondoweiss
@disqus_qhuce9v5DO:disqus is probably reading Israeli media too. The Israeli "genocide" army itself has acknowledged that Hamas is upholding the ceasefire agreement. Why did Israel enter into the agreement anyway? Because it was failing in achieving any of its goals. Can you imagine what would happen if Israel riles up the populations in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia?
We also know our cousins very well. If I didn't have anything but this verse, it's enough for me to be a Muslim and submit to God.
"Even united, they would not ˹dare˺ fight against you except ˹from˺ within fortified strongholds or from behind walls. Their malice for each other is intense: you think they are united, yet their hearts are divided. That is because they are a people with no ˹real˺ understanding."
Penetrating verse. Just incredible. It fits Israel's conduct in this war, and the divisions going on right now over the captives deal.
As for the "Axis of Resistance," if one thought the Shia were a thorn in the side wait for the majority resistance that is simmering to boiling point.
@disqus_lbkuZ0DrY6:disqus@disqus_dw0PWv6cnf:disqus
The divisions in Israel are heartbreaking. It’s painful to think of every life lost and that is what divides the country. On the other side, the philosophy is perfectly expressed as follows: “We love death more than you love life”
No, but they’re willing to risk their lives for a chance at something better than the living hell Israel has imposed on them.
Sure, just distill it down to cute little catchphrases, like Golda Meir. People forget she was responsible for poisoning Palestinian wells, the hideous hag.
Here is another verse.
"You will surely find them clinging to life more eagerly than any other people, even more than polytheists. Each one of them wishes to live a thousand years. But even if they were to live that long, it would not save them from the punishment. And God is All-Seeing of what they do."
Yeah, it's a real dilema they live. If they are religious and the "Chosen of God" you would think they are ready to sacrifice their lives for eternity rather than this limited worldy life. And if they aren't religious you would think that they have become progressive, enlightened, democratic, etc.
That's why their youth are turning away from Zionism. You can't be Jewish, young, progressive, liberal minded (as in the philosophy) and accept what is being done to the Palestinians.
We are all going to die. If life is to be spent contorting one's own humanity and harming the rest of humanity, what kind of a life is that?
"We teach life Sir!"
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Tell me just how a regional conflict would destroy Israel?
They would simply be overwhelmed. The problem with the peoples' resistance isn't arms, manpower or strategy. Its just the fact that their rulers are mentally defeated.
The bastards planned this all along. You would think that, in a country with 330 million people, we could find leaders who aren't complete assholes.
But NO, we can't.
We can find them, but billionaires make sure they can’t get elected.
Mike Gravel seemed like a decent human.
Yes, … I think back to the '60's (i.e., prior to the neoconnazi pathology), there were among the big bourgeois and especially the institutional elite at least a few powerful voices against carpet bombing(s) and Bull Connor(s).
Don't know Mike Gravel but any decent human man or woman cannot get very far in our political system. They may squeeze out a position in the House, but if they do not go along with the games of DC they will be ousted after 2 years.
On the other hand total nit wits get elevated to higher positions if they play the game right.
Sociopathic tendency elevates people to high positions in empire.
Mike Gravel. (RIP)
…Gravel had just obtained a second copy of the Pentagon Papers from whistleblower (and, much later, Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder) Daniel Ellsberg, through a midnight curbside handoff from Ben Bagdikian, an editor and journalist at the Post. In an act of remarkable bravery, Gravel convened a subcommittee meeting, and read from the Papers until one A.M., culminating in an emotional description of the violence of war. He then inserted 4,100 pages of the document into the Congressional Record.
https://freedom.press/issues/fifty-years-ago-today-senator-mike-gravel-read-the-pentagon-papers-into-the-official-record-more-lawmakers-should-follow-his-lead/
Watch the beginning at least:
Mike Gravel at the Democratic Debate
111K views · 16 years ago…more
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uBcMUZAXMW4
Mike Gravel calling out the real axis of evil onstage, Clinton, Obama and Biden.
There are always exceptions to the rule, but they have no chance in a system dominated by big money. They are the useful cover called democracy.
Wow, thank you. How did I miss him? well my husband died 16 years ago, so must have been around that time were politics took a little back seat.
I was fortunate to know and like Mike Gravel.
The billionaires appear to be the deep state, and they have come to believe that the air is safe to surface.
Maybe Trump/Musk are only two ugly animals in a bad dream.
"assholes" implies abnormality. These are sociopaths; and, what's more, they appear to be the norm (both the Trump and Harris vote).
“If all the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 o’clock, I think it’s an appropriate time. I would say cancel it, and all bets are off. Let hell break out,” Trump said.
Where did the guy go who wanted to be known as a peacemaker?
You are way too smart to ever have bought into that bullshit that Trump actually cared about peace. Maybe piece, but not peace.
His writers are alternately Vince McMahon & Mike Lindell, respectively hawking his bullshit to 12 or 80 yr olds
If nothing else the POS is an accomplished conman, credit where credit is due.
He never was if people watched carefully during his 1st term. yet MAGA still believe that he was and is the peace president because he sells himself as such.
Yes, the NeoConNazis, after Leo Strauss’ “noble lie’, and latterly, the PoMo’s instrumentalism, hold that concepts like “truth” and “falsity” meaningless. Trump is both a NeoConNazi and PoMo ante factum. He uses language instrumentally without method, his purpose being aggrandizement of his (?) ego or wallet
But somehow it works on a lot of people.
He is a compulsive liar, he can't remember what he said an hour ago and he has no principles.
Frick, just this past Sunday my Dad repeated Trump's lie about "Musk & DOGEcoin cutting US$53 million spent to supply Palestinians with condoms they then used as balloons to float bombs over to attack Israel."
Trump lies all the gat-damn'd time and unfortunately, people wanna believe.
There is nothing I could add to what you posted.
Bombastic and arrogant, The Donald…
The US should lead the countries to a long and lasting Peace agreement.
They could if they wanted to.
No, they're not capable…!
You are right, even if they wanted to, they are wearing blinders.
The US regime is incapable of leading anyone anywhere. After decades of becoming used to getting its way by bullying, it’s long since lost its capacity to persuade.
Even if the US is still trying to persuade – most countries no longer believe in anything the US has to offer because it always comes with obligations and the US violating treaties.
They even destroy their allies.
Kissinger did tell them to be friends with the US is fatal. We can be sure Putin remembers.
The US is the most dangerous entity on the blue planet earth.
The ruling regime consists of criminal idiots, all they know is to destroy, leaving nothing but scorched earth behind. What a joke Trump want others to clean up and pay up after him so he can have his golf course on a new Riviera Beach and maybe a Trump Tower. The insanity of the old greedy orange POBS is mindboggling.
US would be the Worst country to lead others…!
That creature is president, who would have thought that is possible?
“If all the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 o’clock, I think it’s an appropriate time. I would say cancel it, and all bets are off. Let hell break out,” Trump said.He stressed that all remaining Israeli hostages should be released by Saturday, which is not part of the deal.
Wow, shades of George W and his ultimatum to Saddam. This one is going to be a hard sell for even Trump's most loyal cult members.
The Ceasefire Deal is now a Demand Deal…!
There never was a ceasefire, he never knows what he is saying, he makes no sense.
Well, we can cancel The Donald…
The fat orange slob should lead the way.
Trump and the people in his administration are people without principles.
The politicians on both sides of the aisle are corrupt as much as all the corrupt people they are in bed with, like Zelensky and all the dictators they put in power with regime changes. Now the corrupt politicians are accusing each other to be corrupt. USAID has always been corrupt no matter which party was in power.
Trump thinks US is still the influencer it used to be in 1980s… Dead Wrong…!
Trump is now the Criminal minister representative…!
Nope. Just another asshole US politician.
That’s his second job…!
They sure TRY but not much would come out of it…!
We've been working for decades to bring idiots to power in Washington DC. It's been hard work by many dedicated morons of the US two-winged war party, but we've finally arrived!
USA! USA! USA!
Trump going back on his word and letting the ASI do whatever it wants ?
I Am Jack's Complete Lack Of Surprise.
… and Hamas strongly rejects Trump ultimatum, says ceasefire only way to return Israeli captives
Before Hamas releases one more prisoner than agreed for Phase 1 of the original ceasefire, they (and the world) MUST demand that the Apartheid State of Israel declare PRECISELY how many hostages remain in Hamassian custody to be released.
113 ? 74 ? 21 ? 46 ?
Because I am nearly certain that Hamas could release everyone they hold, and the ASI would say "Nope, we got back 113 but we know there were, um, 121 still held prisoner, so the agreement is broken and now we're exterminating all Palestinians because they broke our deal."
Netanyahu will Move The Goalposts for sure if it means seeing his X-Tinction Agenda through to its very end.
Someone should tell Trump that it’s hard to convince people you’re some sort of tough guy while you’re actively fellating the Israeli Prime Minister.
The Gaza Ceasefire Is Being Sabotaged By Israel, By Trump, And By The Media
The first obstacle to the ceasefire holding was always that it depends on good behavior from individual IDF troops, many of whom (A) quite like murdering Palestinians and (B) hope the ceasefire ends so they can murder more. These troops could also be reasonably confident that they would incur no consequences from their superiors for those killings.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/02/11/the-gaza-ceasefire-is-being-sabotaged-by-israel-by-trump-and-by-the-media/
Trump Almighty who never honors any agreements or laws is always right, when he says jump, you better jump.
!!!
What happened to the sunflower…?!
There's no hint that Trump plans to pull the US out of NATO.
During his first term, President Trump appeared serious about pulling US military personnel out of Syria. After three weeks and no General Mark Milley to obstruct, we've not heard that policy emanating from President or NSA Mike Waltz.
We're left to conclude that the US will actively partner with Israel in the Greater Israel Reclamation Project.
Regarding Ukraine, former CIA Agent Larry Johnson gives the impression weapons and funding are continuing to flow into Ukraine.
Is this Trump's way of 'bleeding' Russia while distracting with insignificant peace overtures?
https://sonar21.com/putin-dumps-bucket-of-reality-cold-water-on-trump/
NATO is imploding, the sooner the better. It has served US interests only and is nothing but a battleground for USA hegemony. The nuclear weapons are targets and not defense, making it easier to attack Russia first with nuclear weapons.
The USA/NATO is Europe's biggest enemy.
Europe is in coma now and no one knows when they finally wake up…!
Feb. 23 there is an election in Germany, the result will be interesting.
AfD is a right of center conservative party, replacing the old CDU. TO carry the D for Germany in the name does NOT make the party a NAZI extremist party. They are being demonized with calling them NAZIS as if Germans are committing a crime to be German.
Alice Weidel and Sarah Wagenknecht both are outstanding strong and talented women, they would not tolerate a Baerbock.
If there is a resistant movement against US imperialism in Europe… It should start with Germany…!
Scholz and his terrible coalition have destroyed all the trust the older generation before them worked so hard for to regain after Hitler. They support people in Israel and the US who make the Nazis look like boy scouts, despicable. There is opposition but also the USA/NATO pressure and Scholz had no backbone to say no, Schroeder did, he told Bush to go to hell no support for the Iraq invasion, Brandt and Schmidt and Kohl and now the Scholz and stupid Baerbock ignorant and corrupt pieces of walking turds. Genscher and all the others must be turning in their graves.
There are reports of US pressure on Switzerland to end their neutrality and join NATO, sounds like Finland and Sweden. But now NATO is imploding, the sooner the better.
Sergeant Scholz would not survive the reelection…!
After WW2 the USA was the big winner, they lost nothing but held on to the beaten European continent, they were the economic power. Russia was the winner of the war and paid with blood and life and ruins, Russia was totally exhausted and threatened no one. Only the USA was thinking about the next war and conquests possible. They needed NATO, there was no Warsaw Pact to fight. The USA and UK were winning on the cheap. The dying UK empire became the #2 winner. That has changed and the Anglo-Saxon refuse to admit it.
1. they lost nothing Except 400,000 young men.
2. threatened no one The people living in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania at that time would disagree.
The same is true of all the American wars of aggression thousands of miles removed from the USA, not border conflicts, the US crosses oceans to attack people on other continents. When did the USA not threaten other nations. They even threaten and destroy their own allies. Russia did not threaten Eastern Europe until NATO and Russia formed the Warsaw pact in response to NATO and the cold war started.