Posted on 01/29/2026 2:22:19 PM PST by fruser1
Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said Wednesday that Hamas never agreed to disarm, casting doubt on whether the terror group will fulfil a key US and Israeli demand included in the American-backed plan for postwar Gaza.
Abu Marzouk’s statement runs contrary to the insistence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump that the terror group give up its weapons in the near future as part of the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire. Trump has repeatedly asserted that Hamas “promised” to lay down its arms, and has threatened the group over the issue.
Abu Marzouk also suggested Hamas has a de facto veto on any appointment to the new technocratic committee set up to run the Gaza Strip, and stressed that Hamas still rules over the part of the enclave that, in accordance with the ceasefire, is not under IDF control.
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Givem a choice: DISAREM OR DIE!
Witkoff, Kushner and Tom Barrack would lie to Trump about what Hamas agreed to so they could collect Qatari money? I’m shocked! /s
Here we go. When the Walk-Back is walked back.
I’m surprised it even took this long.
Maybe this one can be persuaded to do what’s right.
So what's next?
These people in Hamas remind me of many Democrats in the US. Quick to make promises then even quicker to screw things up and find someone to blame for their failure.
Is he a professor at Haaavaad or Yale?
Bomb, bomb, bomb
Bomb, bomb Hamas
Hamasure going to deceive. Did anyone tell Hamas that their sugar daddies are in Moscow now?
What sources of support does Hamas have?
Trump would have made sure A/V recordings were made for leverage at times just like this.
Muzzies lied yesterday.
Muzzies lie today.
Muzzies will lie tomorrow.
In this universe.
In all multiverses.
It’s a feature.
Exactly.
“no one’s raised it with us directly“ yeah no one thought to ask them. As you said this is what you get with no unconditional surrender.
Arabs never stick to a deal or contract of any kind.
They have no honor.
Of course they won’t. They lie as badly as the Russians. Savage, mindless, amoral brutes, all of them. They only understand one thing.
Even if this crew of prevaricators, dissemblers and outright liars HAD agreed to disarm, they would renege on that proposition immediately after they walked out of any negotiations.
“Unconditional surrender” as it applies to Jihadists means annihilation first, THEN negotiate with the corpses.
Bad juju, man.
Oh, don’t worry - the IDF will be making sure that they get the message both very soon and very good and hard.
Bombs away!
Taqqiya
Not only is it acceptable to lie to an infidel it is required if it advances the cause of Islam
You can never trust a muslim
Maybe we can send them a couple of JDAMS to raise the issue, and discuss.
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