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Netanyahu says ‘intense fighting’ will resume in Gaza if hostages not released by Saturday
Times of Israel ^ | 2/11/2025 | LAZAR BERMAN

Posted on 02/11/2025 9:35:54 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Israel will resume “intense fighting” in Gaza if Hamas doesn’t release hostages by midday Saturday, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video statement after a four-hour security cabinet meeting.

“If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon,” he says, “the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated.”

US President Donald Trump yesterday called for all hostages to be released by Hamas by Saturday.

Israeli statements today have taken care not to call for all 76 remaining hostages to be released by the weekend. An Israeli official says that Hamas must release nine more hostages by Saturday.

The security cabinet says Netanyahu “welcomed President Trump’s demand for the release of our hostages by Saturday noon, and we all also welcomed the president’s revolutionary vision for the future of Gaza.”

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; hostages; israel

1 posted on 02/11/2025 9:35:54 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

The Nazis were not defeated by negotiation. The Allies killed them until the rest could not fight anymore

It time to stop kidding ourselves that there is any other solution to this barbaric group then whole scale killing until they surrender unconditionally


2 posted on 02/11/2025 9:39:40 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Iran is probably the key to this. Iran needs to understand if their proxies don’t act right Iran will be minus some oil terminals Saturday night.


3 posted on 02/11/2025 9:41:03 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: MNJohnnie

It’s time for Israel to end this. 73 hostages are not worth Israel being completely safe from harmas.


4 posted on 02/11/2025 9:50:24 AM PST by factmart ( )
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To: jeffersondem
Iran is probably the key to this. Iran needs to understand if their proxies don’t act right Iran will be minus some oil terminals Saturday night.

And dump Gazan peoples in Iran. Lots of space there, especially since they ousted thousands of Jews over the last half century.

5 posted on 02/11/2025 9:50:33 AM PST by roadcat ( )
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To: MNJohnnie

Yes. Back then, we didn’t offer spa days with group therapy or try to understand their POV and ask how we could get along.

I’m all for the Israelis making piles of Hamas surrounded by puddles of Hamas with a fine sprinkling of Hamas.

Peach


6 posted on 02/11/2025 9:53:13 AM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: factmart
“ 73 hostages are not worth…”

That’s not a very kind thing to say but I guess it’s easy because it’s no one that is related or married to you.
7 posted on 02/11/2025 9:57:58 AM PST by The Louiswu (You get what you vote for, good and hard.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Anyone who thinks the decisions about Gaza are happening in Gaza are crazy.

Perhaps Iran’s new “Supercarrier” needs to sink. That might open some eyes in Tehran.


8 posted on 02/11/2025 9:59:09 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: marcusmaximus

I think Trump said the same thing first. Not sure why, I guess Trump has Israel’s back on this. I wonder what we get in return?

Egypt put troops at the border. I suppose they may worry that the Rafah crossing border may not hold - or that Israel will dismantle it by air. The Gazans would flood into the Sinai desert. The innocent people, even if they mistakenly voted for that Hamas scum 20 odd years ago, should flee if they get the chance.


9 posted on 02/11/2025 10:09:53 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: MNJohnnie

The Allies killed them until the rest could not fight anymore

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But they fought on anyway. It took over a decade after the war ended to hunt down the last of the guerrilla fighters and many were still ardent Nazis in the 1960s


10 posted on 02/11/2025 10:42:25 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

According to historical records, the last significant Nazi guerilla groups, often referred to as the “Werwolf”, were effectively suppressed in Germany by the end of 1945, shortly after World War II ended; however, some isolated acts of resistance and reprisals against them continued into 1948


11 posted on 02/11/2025 11:09:52 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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12 posted on 02/11/2025 12:05:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: marcusmaximus

The Israeli Left, which controls the IDF General Staff, may feel existentially threatened by the cutoff of their American government financing and launch a coup against Netanyahu instead of resuming against Hamas.


13 posted on 02/11/2025 12:21:48 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s time for the first world to STOP feeding and supporing the arabs in GAZA - the Arab community can feed their own.

Maybe then the men of Gaza won’t have a much time to cause evil - they’ll be too busy trying to make a living the rest of us.


14 posted on 02/11/2025 12:44:40 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
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To: MNJohnnie

According to “Official” historical records

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But had you been in Germany in the 1960s and got to know some of the locals you would learn a different story.


15 posted on 02/11/2025 2:53:17 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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