Posted on 01/15/2025 6:54:07 AM PST by texas booster
Let’s be clear about two things
1. The Hamas Surrender Deal is the same deal the Biden administration has been pushing all along which consists of Israel giving Hamas everything it wants in exchange for the release of living or dead hostages.
The final terms haven’t yet been made public, but a leaked draft calls for exchanging live terrorists for dead hostages, an Israeli withdrawal, and Qatar being allowed to ‘reconstruct’ Gaza. Attempts to ‘sell’ the deal hinge on such details as whether Israel will be able to go back into Gaza which will be subject to interpretation. Based on past history, the interpretation that will be followed is the one that forces an end to the fighting.
2. The Hamas Surrender Deal puts the Trump administration in charge of then enacting and managing a policy crafted by the Biden administration and Qatar. The consequences when it inevitably falls apart will be on Trump.
Only so much can be known from outside, but Steve Witkoff appears to have been taken for a ride by longtime pros like Secretary of State Blinken and Brett McGurk and is enjoying the flattering media stories about him ‘intimidating’ and ‘cursing out’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Witkoff is being taken for a ride and the Trump administration is being taken for a ride with him. He didn’t succeed, he failed miserably at extracting meaningful concessions from Hamas, and went right back to Biden’s policy of pressuring Israel. Instead of delivering a win for Trump, he delivered one for Biden.
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And that’s a disaster not only for Israel. but for America.
After the initial euphoria of freeing a few hostages, the Trump administration will be stuck managing Gaza, it will be stuck funding the mess, pressuring Israel not to go after terrorists and when the thousands of freed Hamas terrorists kill Americans, the Trump administration will be blamed.
The smart play was to let Israel win the war without getting involved. The dumb play was Witkoff doing whatever Blinken told him to do.
The Trump administration should not let Witkoff hang Biden’s Hamas Surrender Plan around its neck. That’s setting it up to fail and lose, to show weakness, and to be stuck dealing with a neverending problem in Gaza.
There is a problem in Gaza. It should not become ours. Anything that Blinken suggests should be ignored.
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blinkin should be the sole boot on the ground in gaza
and stay there till the hostages are returned.
Any “deal” will be between Israel and Hamas, not the Retard Administration or President Trump. Israel is not going to agree to anything that restricts their ability to destroy their enemies, especially knowing that they have all of the cover in the world in five days...
Why would Israel make such a deal with Trump just five days from taking office?
This deal is the first step. Donald Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said this morning that they would “Carve up the Hamas Cancer”. I think that begins on the first day of Trump’s next term. The gloves come off if his surrogates are to be believed.
It’s a bad deal, it will fall apart.
I’m not wild about this deal either. The terms should be release the hostages or we will mill every single one of you with great abandonment.
Never a good decision in the ME. Maybe this will be a hostage thing like Regan after the Jimmy Carter debacle and there might be a little peace. Then again Lebanon happens soon after Iran’s hostage crisis was over.
Perpetual war.
Only a fool underestimates Trump.
One thing that I have learned about Trump, is that he isn’t stuck with anything. The man will go “bull in a China Shop” when needs be.
So right. Trump will stand solidly behind Israel, and Israel will not accept bad surrender terms from Hamas or Hezbollah.
“Shillman” is an unfortunate name for a fellowship, or anything else
this is not an issue for Trump or the USA to be overly concerned with. This is an issue for Israel to determine.
BTT
Not if Joe Pedo takes credit for it during his phonyass, final Farewell, Farewell “Speech”.
Trump's Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth explicitly stated in open hearing that he would like to kill every single Hamas member
The actions of a bunch of terrorist savages working off of 150 sq miles on the edge of the wasteland that is the Saini Desert are such a huge problem only because so many in the world want it to be that way and because we let it be that way.
Take way all the manufactured false nuance and complexity and the problem is not that difficult.
I just don’t understand why Israel doesn’t do or say whatever is necessary to get the hostages and then when they do, nuke hamas / Gaza. The other side breaks deals before they can even be ratified. Why does Israel play nice? Get your people, then neutralize your enemies. Permanently.
Nah. Trump will just use B-2s and B-52s to carpet bomb the entire Gaza strip - solving the problem completely
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