For two years, Israel has had to endure the international community’s condemnation, its pariah status, for daring to successfully fight back after hamas made war on its civilian population (over 1,200 dead, over 250 taken hostage, with the promise that they would do it “again and again”).
Well, now Israel, with the oversight of President Trump, has made a “peace deal” with hamas, and removed its troops from Gaza.
hamas’ end of the deal? To return the remaining hostages, both alive and dead, and to lay down its arms so the people of Gaza could rebuild in peace.
Did anyone seriously expect that hamas would make good on this? Go quietly into the night?
And did anyone seriously expect that the world community, so fast to put the wood to Israel for daring to fight back, is going to do a damn thing about it?
Here is today’s editorial in the New York Post. Every word of it. Take a look and see how completely it rings true:
As Hamas renegs on the cease-fire deal, who’s going to step up and disarm it?
Hamas has already proved it means to use the cease-fire as a way to restore its rule of Gaza, inevitably with an eye to launching future terror attacks on Israel; the question is: Will the world leaders who just signed the historic peace accord let it happen?
“We do not need to limit ourselves to the Israeli terms and definitions related to weapons,” taunts Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem; back on Friday, the three main Gaza terror groups issued a joint statement flat-out rejecting any “foreign guardianship” over Gaza.
President Donald Trump is furious: Hamas is “going to disarm, because they said they were going to disarm,” he roared, “and if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them” — and “violently,” if need be.
But does that mean waiting the weeks or months for the planned International Stabilization Force to get created, or having Israel immediately go back into the parts of Gaza it just left?
Certainly, the IDF can’t pull back any further when Hamas also says it will “continue resistance” in pursuit of “a fully sovereign, independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
For now, the terror group is busy publicly executing rivals and wiping out clans and militias opposed to its rule.
No sooner had Israel withdrawn from areas specified by the cease-fire than Hamas storm troopers began targeting foes, slaughtering 52 members of the Dogmoush clan on Sunday alone.
“It’s a massacre. They’re dragging people away, children are screaming and dying, they’re burning our houses,” one clan member’s daughter fumed.
The terror group has also issued death warrants for Housam al-Astal and Yasser Abu Shabab, militia leaders it says have cooperated with Israel.
Gazans tell The Post they’re petrified of Hamas targeting civilians.
Surely the “Ceasefire Now!” crowd will rally to demand Hamas end its “genocide” of innocent Gazans?
Nope: Those sympathies run only pro-terrorist: After Hamas propagandist Saleh al-Jafarawi (“Mr. FAFO”) got killed in fighting with the Dogmoush gang, Rama Duwaj (Zohran Mamdani’s wife) posted four broken-heart emojis on Instagram, writing “Beloved Jafarawi.”
On Day Two, the cease-fire was already in doubt: Israel has ordered the Rafah crossing kept closed and humanitarian aid cut in half until Hamas delivers the 24 deceased hostages it failed to hand back.
“The job IS NOT DONE,” Trump noted on Truth Social.
“THE DEAD HAVE NOT BEEN RETURNED, AS PROMISED!”
The question remains: Who is going to save innocent Gazans from Hamas by going in to disarm or eliminate the terrorists?
Will any of the world leaders who basked in Trump’s limelight on Monday lift a finger to help?
Indonesia has offered a few hundred troops for the Stabilization Force; will Qatar, Egypt or the Saudis also step up?
It’s plainly going to need some serious urban-warfare veterans if Hamas refuses to go quietly — and a unified command structure if it’s to avoid a Blackhawk Down disaster.
The living hostages are home, but the rest of the road to peace is looking pretty rocky.
Exactly.
So where are those great international experts on what should and should not be done in Gaza, now that they don’t have Israel to blame for everything that happens there? Where are their words of wisdom? Their remedial actions? What are THEY going to do to make Gaza peaceful, now that Israel is out of the picture?
I guess when there’s more to do than simply tell us what Israel is doing wrong, things aren’t as easy.
I’ll end with a question: would it surprise you if some of these same big-mouthed “world leaders” not criticize Israel for leaving too fast and making Gazan citizens vulnerable to what hamas is doing to them?
It wouldn’t surprise me a bit.
