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Now Hamas Wants a Truce. Here’s Why Israel Shouldn’t Give Them One.
PJ Media ^ | 10/10/23 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 10/10/2023 7:04:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

After brutally massacring over 600 Israelis and then suffering some retaliatory strikes from Israel, the bloodthirsty jihadis of Hamas now want a truce. The Israeli government is virtually certain to get immense pressure to agree to such a truce, but this is actually the last thing that Israel should do at this point.

Even before the magnitude of what Hamas perpetrated in Israel was fully known, calls for a ceasefire became a talking point. Leftist opinion makers from the ridiculous (Antony Blinken) to the absurd (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) began calling for a ceasefire so quickly that the Babylon Bee zinged them with a riotous headline: “Emperor Hirohito Calls For Ceasefire After Bombing Of Pearl Harbor.”

Just hours after the Hamas jihad massacres began, the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs tweeted an astonishingly tone-deaf statement: “We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred. We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” The Office deleted this tweet after people started to point out how monstrous it was to urge that Israel not retaliate after being hit with the most devastating attack in its history.

Despite this embarrassment, Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted Sunday that he had met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan; he added, “I encouraged Türkiye’s advocacy for a cease-fire.” (Türkiye is the new official name of the country formerly known as Turkey; its proud government got tired of all the Thanksgiving bird jokes.)

Blinken later took that one down as well, but other leftists continued to call for a ceasefire at a time when that could only have meant that Hamas would hit Israel and Israel would do nothing in response.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; israel; rubblebounce; terrorism; truce
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To: SeekAndFind

NOTHING IS OVER UNTIL WE SAY IT’S OVER


21 posted on 10/10/2023 7:22:34 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Israel’s options: Exterminate them or be exterminated.


22 posted on 10/10/2023 7:22:47 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: SeekAndFind

NO TRUCE, EVER! Israel should capture every member of Hamass in Gaza and decapitate them on television and then show their bodies being fed to pigs as a warning.


23 posted on 10/10/2023 7:22:54 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: oldplayer
Truce?????

Where's Jim Mora when we need him....


24 posted on 10/10/2023 7:23:31 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Mr. K

Many of their leaders are in Qatar. We cannot touch them there.


25 posted on 10/10/2023 7:23:58 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Leaning Right

Very few people, even Senators, are going to be fooled by calls for a truce.

This is like the Nazis asking for a Truce in April 1945.


26 posted on 10/10/2023 7:24:45 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: antidemoncrat

The only solution would is for one side to destroy the other side so devastatingly that the memories of the destruction prevents any future attacks. No more deals, no more appeasement. It will be ugly, it will be cruel, the deaths will be unimaginable but it would be final. War should be so distasteful that it is an absolute last resort. Today it seems to be the first option, especially for the terrorists in that region.


27 posted on 10/10/2023 7:25:13 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Highest Authority

Would you ever trust Hitler after he violated the Munich Agreement by moving into the rest of Czechoslovakia?

You get one truce, and that’s it. Once you violate it, you don’t get any more.


28 posted on 10/10/2023 7:25:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind
The savages want a truce. This is good to know.
Now is the time to hit them again ... with ten times more force. Then, a day later, hit them again.
It's essential to keep in mind that it's them, or you. Peace is not possible with savages. Savages must be destroyed when they come to kill you ... when they come to kill civilization.

In his excellent five-minute video from 2014, the brilliant Dennis Prager notes:
[The Middle East problem] is a simple problem to describe: one side wants the other dead -- and if it didn’t, there would be peace.

Prager concludes with:
Please remember this: There has never been a state in the geographic area known as Palestine that was not Jewish. Israel is the third Jewish state to exist in that area. There was never an Arab state, never a Palestinian state, never a Muslim or any other state.

29 posted on 10/10/2023 7:25:48 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unconditional surrender. Anything else extends the decades old conflict more decades.


30 posted on 10/10/2023 7:27:02 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: SeekAndFind

No truce. No way. The Palestinians can get water and electricity from Iran. They made their bed, they can lie on it.


31 posted on 10/10/2023 7:28:06 AM PDT by elenvee ("...against all enemies, foreign and domestic..")
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To: SeekAndFind

Just start dropping bombs and dont stop.


32 posted on 10/10/2023 7:28:46 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wipe them out to the last goat.


33 posted on 10/10/2023 7:28:47 AM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

BERLIN, APRIL 29, 1945 - German government officials today called for a truce to prevent any further bloodshed and loss of life. The German Reichschancellor, Adolf Hitler issued a statement saying he and his new bride, wished only to live out their remaining years in their modest country home in Bavaria, and no longer wished to engage politics or be entangled in foreign affairs.


34 posted on 10/10/2023 7:29:05 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: elenvee

“There is one thing about this case I still don’t understand, Perry”
“Yes, Della?”
“Why, in heavens name, is Gaza allowed to have any electricity and water at all?”


35 posted on 10/10/2023 7:30:26 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Heck no they shouldn't get one. They started this war, now it's time to end it properly.

It all goes back to what I've said and preached many times past. A + B = C. Attitude plus Behavior equals Consequence, and that's biblical.

a. King David suffered the consequences of what he did with Uriah the Hittite and Bathsheba,

b. Abraham certainly couldn't get away from the ramifications of his fathering a child whose offspring would go on to cause the madness we see today,

c. Solomon reaped the whirlwind when he started following other gods,

so and so on.

Hamas needs to learn the same lesson. As horrible as death is, they brought this upon themselves.

36 posted on 10/10/2023 7:30:50 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Hamas needs to cease to exist. Period. No negotiation. Every square inch of Gaza should be taken and examined, every inhabitant grilled with intense interrogation. Maybe after the cancer is excised greater freedoms can be allowed for those who remain so they can’t complain, but first the ferals need to be completely eliminated.


37 posted on 10/10/2023 7:33:03 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: SeekAndFind

Unleash the Carthaginian option.


38 posted on 10/10/2023 7:34:06 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: tomkat

“It was here. The battlefield was here. The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman Legions. Carthaginians were proud and brave, but they couldn’t hold. They were massacred. Arab women stripped them of their tunics and their swords and lances. The soldiers lay naked in the sun, two thousand years ago, and I was here.”


39 posted on 10/10/2023 7:35:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Reuters, 23 June 1940

"The Reichstag today offered a truce in the fighting in Europe, indicating that German forces had "achieved its targets" and believed that there was no longer any need for continued bloodletting on the European continent.

Sources from the Office of the Fuehrer announced that they felt that all sides of the conflict, particularly the British Islands, need have any worries about German forces continuing their peacekeeping operations in France.

A spokesman for the Fuehrer stated that Prime Minister Chamberlain should accept the guarantees offered by Adolf Hitler that no further operations were planned and that peace could be had in Europe by accepting the truce conditions.

Sources within the British government have indicated that the Prime Minister's Office was considering the generous truce terms."

40 posted on 10/10/2023 7:35:57 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)
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