Posted on 10/22/2025 11:16:24 AM PDT by John Semmens
Now that Trump has gotten the surviving Israeli hostages released and IDF troops withdrawn from Gaza, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken is complaining that he and former President Biden "are not getting a fair share of the credit for this achievement. We exerted continuous pressure on Israel for more than a year asking them to end the war by withdrawing from Gaza. Now after Trump spent a mere week on the problem Israel has withdrawn, the war is over, and the hostages have been released. Where is our Nobel Peace Prize?"
Trump asserted that "the Biden-Blinken strategy was a complete joke. They did such a bad job. The war should've never happened. Theirs was weak leadership. The Biden plan was a total disaster because it didn't put any pressure on Hamas. Hamas started the war by attacking unarmed civilians and killing more than a thousand men, women, and children. They took more than 200 hostages. All that Biden and Blinken did was try to force Israel to give up and hope that the hostages might be released by Hamas as a show of gratitude. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Only a fool would expect them to show gratitude."
"Rather than pressure Israel like they did, I decided to pressure Hamas by getting other Muslim nations to agree to a fair peace plan," Trump explained. "Once these other nations told Hamas to take the deal Hamas agreed and released the hostages. I see that now they are balking at laying down their arms and accepting a democratic government they don't control. They're murdering people in the streets. If this doesn't stop we may just have to kill every member of Hamas. It may be the only way that a lasting peace can be attained."
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell thanked Blinken "for giving us the true story about how this remarkable end of the Gaza war was accomplished. I think that the American people will see through Trump's boasting and recognize that others did the hard work to solve a very difficult problem. I wouldn't be surprised if next year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to former President Biden. That would really give Trump the comeuppance he deserves." Modify message
Biden and fellow traveling democrats hoped to end things by threatening Israel because, like libs generally, they believed, and still do, in the evil represented by Israel’s effort to defend itself.
Trump, on the other hand, ended the war - at least for the time being - by threatening the very entity that started the war, Hamas. Big difference.
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