Posted on 09/04/2025 11:37:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
Israeli defense minister Israel Katz issued an ultimatum to Hamas: surrender, release all hostages, and disarm, or see Gaza City — the group’s last stronghold — destroyed.
Katz’s statement came in apparently response to a statement by Hamas that it would be willing to release all of the hostages in return for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza — which would leave the group armed and in charge, ready to prepare for war again.
The Times of Israel reported: “Defense Minister Israel Katz warns that Hamas will soon face a stark choice: either accept Israel’s conditions to end the war — including the release of all hostages and disarmament — or see Gaza City ;become like Rafah and Beit Hanoun,’ accusing the group of continuing to ‘deceive and utter empty words.'”
Separately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement (translated from Hebrew by the Government Press Office) reiterating Israel’s objectives in a widely anticipated assault on Gaza City, as part of Operation Gideon’s Chariots II:
Unfortunately, this is more spin by Hamas that has nothing new.
The war could end immediately on the conditions set by the Security Cabinet:
1. All hostages are released.
2. Hamas is disarmed.
3. The Strip is demilitarized.
4. Israel has security control in the Strip.
5. An alternative civil administration is established that does not educate for terrorism, dispatch terrorists or threaten Israel.
Only these conditions will prevent Hamas from rearming and returning to the massacre of October 7 again and again as it has promised.
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Did they promise?
Pinky Promise!....................
Don’t talk....Do!
Nothing wrong with Gaza that 300KT can’t cure.
But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof.No palaces as we know them in modern-day Gaza (the Hebrew word armon actually means a citadel or fortress), but who knows how this may be fulfilled in the end time.
— Amos 1:7
I believe Israel should build thousands of dummy pagers and cell phones. Put parachutes on them, and drop them all over Gaza City. Some drones and satellites could watch where the vermin scurry off to, for better, precise elimination.
Give them 24 hours, then do it.
Shoulda been done on day one. Give ‘em exactly one hour to decide.
Hire Zelensky to do the negotiating for Hamas.
The unfortunate civilians in Gaza will be much safer and happier in a nearby Muslim land. Qatar is my recommendation.
You cannot negotiate in good faith with religious zealots or ideologues................
Pagers and cellphones not necessary.
Just drive in a truckload of food aid, rice, flour, etc, with Apple Air Tags inside and watch where it all goes.....................
“Israeli defense minister Israel Katz issued an ultimatum to Hamas: surrender, release all hostages, and disarm, or see Gaza City — the group’s last stronghold — destroyed.”
Seems completely reasonable.
Katzenjammer...................
Is there anything left to destroy?
Gaza city will likely be destroyed either way. Depends on how they built that tunnel network. Maybe if Hamas surrenders and the Gazans remain docile, Israel can go in and fill the tunnels with cement.
The tunnels are perhaps the biggest problem, right after Hamas ideology. The world, including Israel, sat back and watched as Hamas built 500 miles of smuggling tunnels. Year after year for almost 20 years. It was never going to be used to save people, it was always going to be used to smuggle weapons and other contraband and ultimately to move undetected and be able to surprise an enemy - any enemy.
So yeah, Hamas should surrender and inform the people to accept rehabilitation; which will include rendering all tunnels unusable and other types of new construction that would prevent tunnels from being build again. Gaza could ultimately have one of the best, newest “smart” cities on earth. They have the world’s sympathy and the pocketbooks have always been open to them. Nobody before Trump though really cared how that money was used. He has floated many new plans including temporary relocation, financial aid, and return to newly constructed cities for landowners and renters after the area has been rebuilt. With a 5-10 year window where Gazans are temporarily relocated, and their eventual return to someplace very nice and affluent there is a decent chance they won’t want this ridiculous Hamas kill all the Jews ideology anymore.
FWIW, it has been reported that Hamas summarily executed 24 people this week, including 2 women. Lined them up in the street against a wall with a bag over their heads. The crime, “collaboration”. Hamas HQ in Qatar said they were “convicted in a court of law and the execution would normally have been done in prison but had to be done in public because of the war” Reuters has photos floating out there if you can find them. Not much in the MSM of course.
FWIW, Israel no longer has the death penalty. If captured alive the worst sentence is life in prison or until traded for a hostage.
Wasn’t it already destroyed?
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