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Trump says he’s ‘not confident’ Gaza ceasefire will hold
CNN ^ | Jan 21, 2024 | Lucas Lilieholm and Mick Krever

Posted on 01/21/2025 3:58:42 AM PST by McGruff

US President Donald Trump said Monday he was “not confident” the Gaza ceasefire would last, despite claiming credit for brokering the agreement between Israel and Hamas.

“I’m not confident. It’s not our war, it’s their war,” he said from the Oval Office, when asked by a reporter whether the ceasefire would hold and last through three planned phases. “I looked at a picture of Gaza – Gaza is like a massive demolition site. That place is, it’s really, it’s got to be rebuilt in a different way.”

The American president’s pessimism is not unique. There is significant pressure to restart the Gaza war from extremist right-wing Israeli politicians, who believe the ceasefire was a capitulation to Hamas.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ceasefire; cnn; hamas
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Neither am I.
1 posted on 01/21/2025 3:58:42 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff
US President Donald Trump said Monday he was “not confident” the Gaza ceasefire would last,

I think there isn’t anyone on earth, who thinks the cease fire will last.

2 posted on 01/21/2025 4:05:11 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: McGruff

Israel, too, has a Deep State.

And as Randolph Bourne wrote...

“War is the health of the State.”


3 posted on 01/21/2025 4:07:02 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: McGruff

Trump is a realist and anybody who signs an agreements with Muslim Arabs will be the victim of “Taqyia” and “Hudna”.

Taqyia means lying to a non-Muslim in order to seek an advantage, especially in warfare.

Hudna in the West is considered a ceasefire but in the Arab mentality, Hudna means that when your Muslim forces are at a disadvantage, or losing, sue for a ceasefire only in order to rebuild your forces to the point where they can defeat the enemy (infidel).


4 posted on 01/21/2025 4:13:47 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: McGruff
extremist right-wing Israeli politicians...

Sigh. CNN being CNN. They will eventually go away, but not soon enough for me.

5 posted on 01/21/2025 4:20:24 AM PST by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow.)
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To: Blennos

CNN is full of extremist Left-wing poofter fake journalists...


6 posted on 01/21/2025 4:27:50 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: McGruff

Muzzies cannot be trusted. They love to play games with gullible idiots.


7 posted on 01/21/2025 4:29:52 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Dark Days are over. We don't want your criminals. Stop sending your scum to America!)
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To: McGruff

Not it won’t.

Hamas is only using it to regroup and rearm and then go back to killing JEWS.

Only one solution.

Kill all the Hamas Terrorists.

Bibi will do that.


8 posted on 01/21/2025 4:39:41 AM PST 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: Mark17

>> I think there isn’t anyone on earth, who thinks the cease fire will last.

Good. I am anxious to see Pete Hegseth’s vision for Hamas become reality.


9 posted on 01/21/2025 5:13:58 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Texas Fossil

>> Kill all the Hamas Terrorists.

Amen and Amen. Every last one of the murdering bastards. And every last one of their supporters too.


10 posted on 01/21/2025 5:15:23 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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>> Israel, too, has a Deep State.

Yes, and Israel’s deep state is packed to the gills with secular leftists. Just like here, it’s THEM, not the ones the leftist press brands as “far right extremists”, that need to be eliminated BAMN.


11 posted on 01/21/2025 5:18:08 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: McGruff

Flat out they will be back to it by noon tomorrow.


12 posted on 01/21/2025 5:25:20 AM PST by bgill
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To: McGruff

Never own something of which you are not in complete control.

We are not in any control.


13 posted on 01/21/2025 5:38:08 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: McGruff

It never does.


14 posted on 01/21/2025 6:11:12 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: McGruff

The goal is to retrieve as many hostages as possible before finalizing the end of Hamas.


15 posted on 01/21/2025 7:08:43 AM PST by MichaelRDanger
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Why should Hamas want to hold to a ceasefire? If they attack again, the UN will rally around them, and the leftist Israeli hostage lobby will see that all Hamas prisoners are freed in another lopsided prisoner exchange.


16 posted on 01/21/2025 7:20:46 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Netz

You are wrong.

You forget or probably don’t know that the Arabs that matter have aligned with Israel to control Palestine as per the Abraham Accords negotiated by the Trump envoy Jared Kushner

The recent defeat of Hamas was the death throes of Iran attempting to destroy the Accords.


17 posted on 01/21/2025 7:25:56 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: McGruff
Gaza would make a great location for Navy and Air Force bases. And a great resort area.

They just need to drive all the Palestinian wannabees back into the Egyptian concentration camps where they came from.

And while we're at it, Jordan needs to be compelled to take back all the West Banker filth.

18 posted on 01/21/2025 7:34:41 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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pull a thanos and do it ourselves, send a battalion in and destroy hamas.


19 posted on 01/21/2025 8:58:15 AM PST by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: McGruff
The simple fact is that Hamas had more Jewish hostages than it needed. Just one is all that was necessary to make the Israelis dance on a string. So turning over these first hostages is about nothing but reducing their overhead in hostage-care.

But Hamas will NEVER return the final hostage because that would GREEN-LIGHT the resumption of hostilities by the IDF, Mossad & Shin Bet.

Hamas will NEVER release the final hostage.

NEVER.

20 posted on 01/21/2025 12:48:00 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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