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Posted on 05/10/2025 12:05:23 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters responded to recent reports that Israel may be left out of a wide regional initiative which has the potential to secure the release of hostages.
"The government must adopt a comprehensive regional agreement that will transform the Middle East, end the war, and secure the return of all 59 hostages," the Forum responded. "This represents an unprecedented historic missed opportunity. Every citizen should understand tonight that Israel is heading toward 'the missed opportunity of the century.'"
The Forum alleged that "the government is acting contrary to President Trump's policy," as well as in "complete opposition" to the will of the Israeli public.
"We call on the government to make history by choosing to end the war, return all hostages, and seize this historic regional opportunity," it added. "Return all hostages—the living for rehabilitation and the deceased for proper burial."
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You could have had regional peace any time you wanted. Just click the heels of your ruby slippers together and say, "there's nothing like peace, there's nothing like peace, there's nothing like peace" and everything will be right as rain.
Are you sure Glenda the hostage-exploiting-witch of the North has the maturity to use such an expression?
I just aligned it with an idiom from the same time period as the Wizard of Oz.
OK. Got to be historically authentic. The movie or the book?
But they’ll always have the money from American NGOs and Qatar.
“The government must adopt a comprehensive regional agreement that will transform the Middle East, end the war, and secure the return of all 59 hostages,”
This is from the Israeli Left and is false and no different than the U.S. Leftists constant refrain, for four decades, that we could not end illegal immigration without “comprehensive immigration reforms”.
These calls for “comprehensive” measures are nothing more nor less than mere calls to permit Leftists insertions into the terms of any settlements.
What Israel and the Middle East need is the total elimination of Hamas as a political force, with Israel and Egypt jointly deciding the fate of Gaza, followed by an Israel-Syria peace agreement much like the agreements between Israel and Jordan and Israel and Egypt, followed by joint Syrian-Israeli elimination of Hezbollah, followed by a formal Israel-Lebanon peace agreement.
At that point Israel will have formal peace agreements with all its next-door neighbors leaving “Palestinians” without Iranian sponsored proxies, forcing the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza to end their wars against Israel.
The movie.
what a silly statement to direct to the Israeli government.
These fakers, commie-nazi propagandists really should be shown the door
IF any of the kidnap victims are still alive, their one chance of getting free from their Fakestinian captors (and it is a long shot, imho) will be through the IDF finding and them (intelligence services, tracking dogs, helicopters, ground-penetrating sonar, more...all in process as we chat...)
No “regional” anything can help them, alas. And these people making such ridiculous demands only encourages the Fakestinian terrorists to hold on to the hostages all the longer.
Gotta also get rid of the Houthis and bring about regime change in Iran, or you’ll just be playing wack-a-mole.
How do you approach the current regime in Syria with any seriousness. All of this would hinge on stability there.
Iran is a Sunni problem as much as anyone’s. Maybe more than.
Ali Sistani is rival for head Shiite cleric, and he’s a Quietist, who believes that Imams should stay out of politics and governance. Muqtada al Sadir Jr. is Robin to his Batman. Last I heard, anyway. If that’s all still true, a cooperative arrangement between the non-crazy Sunnis, the Quietist Shiites, and all the minorities that Iran has p!ssed off, including especially the Ahwazi, Kurds and Balluchis, might be able to accomplish something. Without Iran’s backing, the Houthis might solve themselves and go back to goat humping.
The current regime went after ISIS “militants” recently and is seeking talks with the Trump administration. They want relations with another power besides Erdogan and they are in no position to object too much to Israel seeking to make sure no one in southern Syria can ever again attack Israel. The U.S. can offer them both sticks and carrots.
The Saudis and the UAE need to join together again, militarily, against the Houthis and this time add Egypt to their anti-Houthi military alliance. Egypt lost millions in Suez Canal revenue from ocean freighters avoiding the routes to and from the Suez Canal by way of the Gulf Of Aden.
So long as Iran isn’t there, backing them and threatening nuclear breakout itself, the Houthis would be a pushover.
Much of the region is a harsh desert. Not much rain.
The world needs a successful popular uprising against the Mullahs in Tehran. NOTHING the Mullahs have been doing militarily in the region has been in the national interest of the people of Iran. It has all been for the theological megalomania of the Mullahs of Tehran.
If Trump fully resumes and sticks with his “maximum pressure” strategy, the Mullahs will not be long for this world. What they are replaced with is another matter.
My understanding is their recent targets were the druze and the IDF had to stop them.
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