Posted on 10/05/2025 12:45:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan
It’s one of the strangest spectacles in modern politics — watching left-wing pundits struggle to process the possibility that President Donald Trump could be on the verge of ending the Israel–Hamas war.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shocked the world with a bold peace plan to end the Israel–Hamas war and stabilize Gaza. On Friday, Trump gave Hamas a deadline — accept the deal by Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern or face consequences. Hamas quickly responded, agreeing to give up control of Gaza and release all remaining hostages, while saying some details still required consultation with other Palestinian factions. Trump’s firm deadline and direct approach have already accomplished what years of empty diplomacy never could — real progress toward peace.
But, rather than celebrate the prospect of peace, some commentators seem triggered by the idea that Trump, of all people, might succeed where countless global leaders have failed.
On the latest edition of CNN’s Newsnight, foreign affairs analyst Reena Nina laid out the complex diplomatic environment surrounding the ongoing negotiations. “This is a moment where you’ve got so many of the right things lined up,” she said, noting that regional pressure on Hamas has intensified....
Nina added that Hamas “realizes there aren’t a lot of windows of opportunity for this,” referencing the earlier Gilad Shalit prisoner swap. “You’re waiting for 20 hostages that are living, that we believe are still alive and possibly as many as 30 bodies,” she explained. Then she made a striking admission: “I do believe this window of opportunity is real… because I really believe President Trump. I really believe he will unleash hell and fury if they don’t follow through with this.”
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Well, ham-ass will agree. For a while. Then right back to killing Jews and Christians. Seen the movie.
It is Trump’s plan. Not anyone else’s plan. I hope it works.
You may be right, but does Netanyahu’s support mean nothing? If Israel can be satisfied with her own defense, perhaps things can improve.
I remember, as a child, when Egypt was the sworn enemy of Israel. Times change.
Kind of an empty presumption.
Evil will be with us always.
Hamas is evil and we will
kill it.
It will be replaced by some
other perversion.
“ I remember, as a child, when Egypt was the sworn enemy of Israel. Times change.”
I was at the Peace Now march in Jerusalem with Begin and Sadat.
Was that 6pm Eastern time or Gaza time?
Hamas is refusing to disarm so it’s unlikely this peace deal goes anywhere. It does seem however that Hamas is willing to negotiate a release of the hostages as it’s becoming too difficult to move them around and keeping them alive.
55 minutes to countdown end
Trump will not solve this because he cannot change what’s inside radical Muslims’ heads. Any peace will be only temporary.
Let’s count the Jew focus: +1.
He’s saving Hamas.
Deadline has passed. Nothing happening. Negotiations maybe begin Monday. Goalpost moved to “...first phase [talks] should be completed this week...”
Past countdown by 1 hour and 47 minutes
Is anyone surprised Hamas would reject it? Trump gains two things, first he gives Netanyahu plausible cover to ramp up efforts to destroy Hamas, and second he removes himself from the blame column, after all, he tried to bring peace.
The art of the non-deal.
Hamas is set to demand the release of some of the most notorious Palestinian terrorists, whom Israel has refused to set free, in talks set to start in Egypt on Monday to finalize the return of all Israeli hostages in the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.
Citing Hamas sources, Channel 12 reported that among the terrorists Hamas is demanding are Marwan Barghouti, the Fatah Tanzim chief serving five life sentences for his part in planning three terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada, and Ahmad Sa’adat, leader of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years behind bars for masterminding the 2001 assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi.
Hamas was also demanding the release of Ibrahim Hamed, serving 45 life terms for orchestrating the killings of numerous Israelis as Hamas’s West Bank commander during the Second Intifada, Abbas al-Sayed, who orchestrated the 2002 bombing at the Park Hotel in Netanya in which 39 Israelis were killed, and Hamas’s Hassan Salameh, who is serving 48 life terms for plotting multiple suicide bombings.
Channel 12 cited a Hamas source saying the terror group “won’t give up” on securing the release of these and other life-term terrorists, even at the cost of dooming the deal.”
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