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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
After brutally massacring over 600 Israelis and then suffering some retaliatory strikes from Israel, the bloodthirsty jihadis of Hamas now want a truce. The Israeli government is virtually certain to get immense pressure to agree to such a truce, but this is actually the last thing that Israel should do at this point.
Even before the magnitude of what Hamas perpetrated in Israel was fully known, calls for a ceasefire became a talking point. Leftist opinion makers from the ridiculous (Antony Blinken) to the absurd (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) began calling for a ceasefire so quickly that the Babylon Bee zinged them with a riotous headline: “Emperor Hirohito Calls For Ceasefire After Bombing Of Pearl Harbor.”
Just hours after the Hamas jihad massacres began, the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs tweeted an astonishingly tone-deaf statement: “We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred. We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” The Office deleted this tweet after people started to point out how monstrous it was to urge that Israel not retaliate after being hit with the most devastating attack in its history.
Despite this embarrassment, Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted Sunday that he had met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan; he added, “I encouraged Türkiye’s advocacy for a cease-fire.” (Türkiye is the new official name of the country formerly known as Turkey; its proud government got tired of all the Thanksgiving bird jokes.)
Blinken later took that one down as well, but other leftists continued to call for a ceasefire at a time when that could only have meant that Hamas would hit Israel and Israel would do nothing in response. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Socialist Ditzville) released a statement on Saturday afternoon, as Israeli authorities were still tracking down all the Hamas jihadis who had managed to get inside the country and start killing indiscriminately. AOC said, “An immediate ceasefire and de-escalation is urgently needed to save lives.”
Eventually, after Israel bombed numerous Hamas sites in Gaza, Hamas top dogs began to think that a ceasefire sounded like a terrific idea. Reuters reported on Monday afternoon that “a senior Hamas official said the group is open to discussions over a possible truce with Israel, having ‘achieved its targets.’” Asked if Hamas wanted a ceasefire, a senior leader of the jihad group, Moussa Abu Marzouk (who has a doctorate in industrial engineering from Louisiana Tech), said that Hamas “was open to ‘something of that sort’ and ‘all political dialogues.’”
The establishment media and the leftist political elites will receive this with hosannas and take it as the dawning of a new era of peace — if only those dastardly warmongering Israelis will take Hamas’ olive branch. That is, however, not really what it is at all. For Hamas to be asking for a truce on Monday evening Gaza time, it must have had an extremely bad Sunday and Monday. For Islamic law only allows for a truce if Muslims are weak and need to gather strength to fight later more effectively, or if they’re fighting non-Muslims whom they think may accept Islam. “If Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud…Interests that justify making a truce are such things as Muslim weakness because of lack of numbers or materiel, or the hope of an enemy becoming Muslim…” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.16). This idea is founded on the Qur’an itself: “So do not falter and cry out for peace when you have the upper hand…” (47:35).
Western authorities never, ever demonstrate even the slightest understanding of this point, but this means that when a jihad group asks for a truce, it is admitting that it is losing and needs time to recover. The last thing that its non-Muslim foe should do at that point is actually grant it a truce. What it should do instead is press on toward final victory.
This has happened numerous times in the past: Israel makes headway against the jihadis, they ask for a truce, and the American government pressures the Israelis into accepting. The Netanyahu government should stand firm against all such pressure from the Biden regime. It should understand Hamas’ interest in a truce as a declaration of weakness, and destroy this evil organization’s power to terrorize innocent people once and for all.
Burning children alive? Beheading babies?
God forbid the Israelis surrender their righteous wrath and show any mercy or pity on these Muslim savages!
Kill them all!
Hamas reminds me of the school yard bully who cold cocks a kid and then runs behind the teacher’s skirt, sobbing and begging her for protection. Only the bully on the school yard did not rape or murder anyone, and he certainly did not decapitate multiple babies in their cribs.
Israel needs to depopulate the entire Gaza Strip and annex the land. Send any survivors to Turkey and/or Iran. Let them deal with those trouble makers.
They shouldn’t leave any survivors, anywhere in Israel.
Are you referring to the sand monkeys or the Jews?
I learned everything I needed to know about Islam on 9-11. Your comment only cements that even more firmly.
Every Muslim — every single one — should be forcibly removed from any Western country, especially Israel. Send them all back to Arabia, whence they came. They deserve each other, and nothing better.
Including, obviously, the offensive Squad in our very own Congress.
Netanyahu and his defense minister said they’re going to destroy Hamas and remove it from power in “Gaza.”
Let’s hope they do.
And yes. Do humanity a favor and kill them all.
Yeah you said that already in the first article. I am not buying your newfound “inner tough guy”. I just think you are trying to curry favor here, after years of Jew bashing and Israel bashing and Christian bashing.
God forbid? Really? You saying “God Forbid”? As always the ultimate hypocrite.
Yes, each and every one of the pre-civilization subhuman, barbarians. Every single one. They do not merit living on this planet. They have behaved in a manner that should eliminate ALL of them from the modern human gene pool.
Yes, and just think how many of these are crossing our southern border as we speak.
Annihilate them all They asked for this war now destroy them. They are as bad as DemonRats, killing babies.
Hamas and other enemies of Israel are thorns in their side they have been for thousands of years
1300, actually.
To think that a proposed truce would even be contemplated is further evidence of the effect of generations of first-cousin- marriage
I agree. This time just absolute victory over evil. The death penalty for all Palestinians who participated in or encouraged the war and/or the brutality. That would include most Gazans and many Palestinians in Judea-Samaria. A truce is simply an invitation for the Palestinians to try again later with more help from Iran.
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I used to believe I was a Jew living in the receding wake of the holocaust (in historical terms), never believing I would see for myself such depravity. Now I am a Jew living in the immediate chaos following what may be the most brutal attack on Jewry in a century. I don’t recall ever before hearing about the decapitation of babies and group killing of children in front of their parents or firebombing elderly hiding in a safe room or the massacre of people at a peace rally. this atrocity is the sentinel moment. Like Sarajevo prior to ww1 and Pearl Harbor before ww2 and 9/11, this day will usher in ww3. The countries need to line up and pick a side. The USA needs to state clearly and w actions that we are not only on Israel’s side but we are on the side of humanity and will protect it at all costs. We need to send our military assets and support the destruction of hamas and its Allie’s wherever they may be. Just like the nazis were hunted globally so too must hamas and their sympathizers, even here in the USA. I fear terrorism coming again to the USA in the near future and it’s time to use our might and change the landscape once and for all. We have the means and we shouldn’t wait to be hit again.
No offense but you had your head in the sand
As do most in NY.
Difficult to understand those who vote for suicide.
I saw a clip, of Jonathan Greenblatt on MSNBC, seems like he may have had an ah ha moment, hopefully the Anti-Defamation League.
Darn, I so busy spelling all those big words, I didn’t finish my thought. Hopefully the ADL will “change course.”
The world didn’t hunt the nazi’s down for very long, or very enthusiastically.
In fact, they were much more enthusiastic about taking them in, giving them new lives and protecting them forever.
So you’ll have to forgive me (or not) if I don’t share your optimism.
Eventually, Israel is going to have to stand alone on this and continue todo what must be done, across the globe if necessary.
You know the world doesn’t care when Jews are slaughtered.
Probably true. One may hope so.
A huge problem, however, is Israel’s nickname is a “one bomb nation”.
This is what we should do, but we will not. And yes, undoubtedly there are many terrorists in our midst since they’ve had the freedom to pour over our southern border.
This is of course the last thing that Israel should do which is why Hamas is taunting them with the offer aside from the obvious PR aspect and Blinken who got a little carried away in the enthusiasm.
Hamas does not speak. Hamas does not feel. Hamas operates a machine called the language of war.
That’s what islam is. Founded by a blood thirsty full blown psychopath named muhammad.
Muslims are just following his orders.
All,
Why doesn’t Israel allow its citizens our equivalent of the 2nd Amendment?
They all take military arms training.
That’s next to useless if one has to disarm an armed enemy to obtain a firearm, or one is only allowed to possess 20 rounds of ammo. I don’t know what happened(I smell leftists in it), but it needs to be corrected.
They used to have very liberal firearms laws, but when Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995 those laws were rescinded. Things are loosening up a bit, but it’s still not so easy for an ordinary citizen to obtain a firearm.
Israel is cutting off water and electricity. Hamas has obviously prepared for this and left civilians unprepared.
Who the hell cares about their civilians? Israeli civilians are being murdered and that is all Israel must focus upon.
Level all of Gaza
Bulldoze Gaza and give the land to the victims and their families of this latest jihad.
They’d make much better use of it than the people there now. It would make a nice beach resort town, and you wouldnt be able to distinguish it from orbit (from the lack of greenery) anymore.
Plus, the videos of all those rabid civilians jumping up and down and screaming with job, the old, the young, all modes is proof they wanted it. So give them the death they so love.
Yes, push it into the Mediterranian with bulldozers and bombs. Or push into the Sinai, even better.
My idea of a a truce with Hamas is for Israel to pound them so hard
into the desert sand that there’s nothing left of them but vapors of
steam. No mercy and no quarter to those Muslim fiends!
They should turn Gaza into a parking lot.
“Terror and violence solve nothing.”
It worked for the IRA, the Cuban communists and many other communists, and, it worked for Islam after 9/11.
Israel should continue to attack until Hamas surrenders.
It should continue until gaza and all its inhabitants are utterly annihilated.
The Truth that most ignore.
Leave nothing standing. Like the Germans and Japanese, Gaza’s civilians let this happen by allowing Hamas to govern them. Until they understand their complicity in the violence against Israel, let them suffer the consequences. Let their chosen government provide for them; they’ve received millions, if not billions in aid from around the world. What have they done with it?
Israel needs to attack every single military target of the surrounding Arab states that they know of, starting with Iran.
Seems to me there ought to be a schedule of escalation: One hostage dies, twenty-five or so Arabs in Israeli prisons die. Then blow up the Temple Mount so that not one Arab stone is left on another. If anyone complains, bomb Mecca. And so forth; lather, rinse, repeat.
It’s WAY past time to take out the mullahs and their revolutionary guard. And every Iranian naval ship, military base and nuclear facility.
Not that Ayatollah Joe’s handlers would ever do any such thing.
No truce..end this NOW! Forever.
I need to plagiarize the terror guide, the koran that was shat into the arabian sands by the pedophile pig-faced dog mohammed for what I recommend the Israelis do to bring peace to the region:
‘kill them wherever you find them’
It’s good advise.
Provided you would want to listen to a psychopath who lives in a cave and talks to “angels”.
Each time time Israel has bowed to international pressure, mainly from the US, and made compromises and concessions to the “Palestinians” in exchange for peace all it has received are more Hamas rockets and more Hezbollah rockets!
Of course they want a truce. Hopefully Israel will give the big, massively destructive, missiles as a truce gift.
Ham-ass terrorist are hiding underground, they have their weapons, food and lots of money. They don’t care if the buildings above are being demolished, they will just get more money for it.
People who get killed above the ground will be used for propaganda to get sympathy from stupid leftists. They made a few extra babies to be killed them for the propaganda.
That’s what a truce will hand them, a victory.
To get rid of this filthy plaque there must be no truce, every single one of them and their supporters must be hunted down. The rest of the people in that terrorist camp called Gaza must surrender unconditionally, and only given enough time to leave to any of the 50 islamic countries.
Their supporters in the West must be thought a lesson in pain too. Supporting terrorism must land them in prison.
And then, their big boss Iran must be completely cut off from the rest of the world, and all of Iran’s sympathizers deported.
Agreed.
I, a brownie Mexican Indian, was accused of racism by a leftist radical lib white woman yesterday in a hard verbal attack for posting that any who butcher babies should be killed including each and every one involved and those supporting, cheering on, such precivilizational psychotic barbarism. So many dumb libs believe such barbarians can be negotiated with. Complete suicidal fools.
If Hamas/Palestinians don’t want to be destroyed, then surrender. That is the normal way a conflict ends- especially when the losing side starts the war.
Do off duty Israeli soldiers carry submachine guns? I understand the day of the attack was Sabbath, so might not, but over the years I’ve seen pictures of soldiers, in civilian clothes, carrying weapons. Can anyone answer my question.
It seems like quite some time since off-duty soldiers carried weapons. Guess it’s time to start again.
One does not make a truce with a nest of vipers!
I hope Israel (and I wish the rest of the world) would stop thinking that islam means peace as we define it. They define it – until all are under sharia/islam. AND yes, when they don’t want to be killed anymore they will pretend to make a peace agreement/cease fire but they NEVER keep it. It is what their ol’ moe did and told them to do! LIE! To attack when they are rearmed/regrouped.
I can’t even believe that I am going to write this but I think China has the right strategy – put them in rebrainwashing camps after going after the leadership. I know that another leader will just step up and take the dead one’s place, and hide behind children, but they need to do what needs to be done. AND shame on the democrats and anyone else who thinks that the moslems in the gaza are the victims when they are not.
Iran will get nuclear weapons and then what?
Hamas is a cancer. You don’t halfway stop the cancer, you wipe it out completely!! After what Hamas did to the civilians and babies, let alone the IDF soldiers it slaughtered, they don’t deserve a truce. I know the Orthodox Jews still maintain, “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” ideology, so don’t give in to Hamas’s plea. They must be wiped out because as soon as they get resupplied, it will be business as usual. Hamas is an abomination. Wipe out the abomination!!
Remember the rest of that citation about an eye for an eye: That vengeance belongs to the Lord. As far as an eye for an eye is concerned, it refers to compensation for injuries sustained. If, for example, two fellows are duking it out and one strikes the other hard enough to detach a retina (untreatable until fairly recently) the one who loses sight in one eye receives reasonable monetary compensation. For example, if he’s an artist his ability to make a living is impeded, but if he’s a farmer he can probably manage, so the courts would adjust compensation accordingly.
But yeah, this Orthodox Jew would like to see the IDF kick some serious Moose-Limb butt. And there is a death penalty for murder, which this was.
moslems only want a truce if they are losing
destroy them all
Psalm 55:21 His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
That would have been like asking for a truce December 8 1941 and September 12 2001
A request for a truce, a ceasefire from Hamas? The whole world should see it for what it is – a putrid pile of rhinoceros diarrhea. They lie and lie and lie, and this is one more lie, because now, they “get it” that Israel has had enough and they want Israel to look bad when they reject a truce.
Too late! Gaza delenda est!
Should have called for a cease fire a week ago. Too late now.
Biden calls for “proportionality” in the conflict. Well, how many terrorists should be killed for a beheaded baby, how many for a raped and abducted teenager, how many for a family burned alive?
As Curtis LeMay said in WWII, “kill enough of them and they will stop”.
The days for truces which Hamas uses to replenish its terror capacity are over
One certainly hopes so. But Israel, like Charlie Brown with the football, keeps falling for it. Let’s hope they’ve learned.
Only the most gullible fool would believe in anything an official of Hamas would say or promise.
Any and all Hamas officials are liars The jihadist heads of Hamas by asking for “truce” are only engaging in an Islamic scheme of lying deception. To obtain more time to gather more weapons to attack Israel again in more murderous jihad strikes.
“Muslims have every right to lie and to deceive their adversaries, and a promise
made to a non-Muslim can be broken whenever necessary.”
– Amir Taheri, Muslim scholar
Those who reject Islam must be killed.
Quran Surah 4:89
The hamas monsters are delusional. They are going to be reduced to dust very soon and nobody can save them.
So these invaders along with their rulers plot murder, rape, and destroy Israel and her citizens, why should anyone be lenient with them? Sorry, it doesn’t work that way after evil causes misery to innocent people. We all better understand the stakes and quit voting for our enemies, and showing weakness….especially with people that have proved they hate you and want your demise…..that goes for Americans too.
To think that a proposed truce would even be contemplated is further evidence of the effect of generations of first-cousin- marriage