In today's New York Post, it was reported that Hamas is now offering to release all fifty-nine remaining hostages if Israel ends its war now, and withdraws, leaving Gaza to Hamas.
While Hamas has insisted that both sides should stick to the original US-brokered cease-fire deal in January, the terror group appears to be ready to concede that a permanent end to the fighting may not be immediately on the table.
“We had no other choice. The situation in Gaza is terrible,” the officials said about Hamas’ new position.
To show where art and life are a blur, in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country when Spock came to Kirk with a Klingon cease-fire and peace treaty to end fifty years of hostilities, Kirk screamed at Spock saying, “Don’t believe them. Don’t trust them.”
That is how Israel and the world need to respond now. It was Hamas who broke the original cease-fire which was negotiated in January.
The terror group maintains that Israel must be open to eventually discussing a permanent cease-fire in Gaza if it wants all the hostages freed, with the Palestinian official noting that Hamas will never agree to disarm so long as Palestinian statehood is denied.
Civilians continue to face a humanitarian crisis over the renewed blockade on food and aid supplies, with the death toll in Gaza rising above 50,000 last week, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, which does not differentiate between civilians and terrorists.
This is on Hamas. They have brought it on themselves, first for attacking, killing and kidnapping so many innocent people. And then, for violating the original cease-fire in February.
And the stories of the released hostages are heart-wrenching, as they described the months of torture and barbaric acts committed by the plethora of savages who acted as “captors”.
As Kirk said, “Don’t believe them. Don’t trust them.”
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