The war in Gaza will not end until every hostage is freed and Hamas is removed as a military threat. That’s what the government of Israel has promised to the people of Israel. Likud lawmaker Danny Danon is not opposed to additional truces along the way to achieve those goals. But he sees Israel’s allies in Washington falling back into familiar traps the kind of which led us to this mess in the first place.
“We have to do everything to free the hostages, even through negotiations, even if it means we have to make another truce,” Danon told Radio 103FM on Monday.
Danon, who previously served as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, insisted that the only way forward was aggressive military action, even in service to achieving temporary truce deals.
“We acted in a very aggressive manner [in northern Gaza] and that led to negotiations that led to a truce and the release” of more than 100 people from Hamas captivity in November of last year. Israel’s more measured approach to combating Hamas in southern Gaza has by contrast allowed the terror group to dig in, and given it no immediate incentive to make a deal.
What many Israelis see as a slacking off of the war effort has come at the behest of the Biden administration, which wants to see Israel end its “high-intensity” campaign in Gaza and move to a phase of more surgical special operations. It also wants Israel to facilitate the entry of more humanitarian aid to Gaza, including by opening the Erez Crossing into southern Israel, which was stormed by Hamas on October 7 as it invaded and butchered men, women and children across the western Negev.
Danon said this is a red line.
ח”כ דני דנון באשר לדרישות ארה”ב: “הדרישה שנפתח את מעבר ארז היא דרישה חצופה. גם לנו יש צרכים הומנטריים. אם הם (החטופים) היו אזרחים אמריקאים כולם, ארה”ב לא הייתה נותנת למשאית אחת להכנס. שאנחנו נפתח את המעברים ונעביר סחורה לחמאס? לדעתי זה מוגזם, צריך לשים קו אדום”.@usegal… pic.twitter.com/17NQp3UERJ
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“The demand that we open the Erez crossing is an insolent demand,” said Danon, insisting that Israel, too, has humanitarian needs, the most urgent of which is ensuring October 7 never happens again. And the only way to do that is to strangle Hamas–militarily, economically and politically.
As we have been reporting here and on our Telegram Channel, the humanitarian aid that is already entering Gaza via Egypt is being stolen by Hamas and then sold at high prices to the population. In this way, the terror group continues to finance itself even under siege.
Danon noted that if this were taking place somewhere else, and over 100 Americans were behind held hostage by an ISIS-like terror group, “the US would not let a single aid truck enter. For them to ask us to open a border crossing and transfer aid to Hamas is excessive. A red line must be drawn.”
“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.” Deuteronomy 32:43
A commentary on this verse says it also means that God provides atonement for the land by pouring his wrath on his enemies in judgement. This is in addition to his atonement for people through sacrificing Yeshua HaMashiach on the cross. This earns the Lord praise from all the nations. Remember Hamas and the Palestinians chant ‘ First we kill the Saturday people, then we kill the Sunday people.’ Well, God has empowered Israel to destroy this enemy of the nations, and it’s about time the nations showed their gratitude.
PS What legal action are the nations taking against Hamas for stealing the aid?
Perhaps the reason the nations aren’t taking any action against Hamas is because the nations are guilty of the same thing against their own people.
The US version of peace is absence of war. They don’t know shalom, and they have abandoned the Prince of Peace, Yeshua HaMashiach, the Lord Jesus Christ. Obama and Biden can quote the US Constitution without mentioning God, Biden called him ‘thingy.’
So US peace resolutions only change the nature of war. Vietnam did fall, as did Iran and Iraq. Stalin took Eastern Europe. The UN is a US initiative, their HQ is in New York, that compromises peace. The US should let Israel destroy the evil of Hamas so they might learn what peace is.
Peace resolutions of the democrat administrations from the Johnson era to today, were used to change the nature of war and to line the pockets of democrat politicians and their donors with wealth redistributed from the taxpayers via, taxes. Now, in today’s world, all their evil labors are going to come home to them in ways they don’t know because they don’t know the one they have been mocking and going against, in every way, shape and form, will now hold them to account in how they treat Israel in this war. Israel will win, but the American left will lose everything they stand for in their desire to bring the world down to their level. “Be not deceived, God is not mocked.”
If Israel as a nation turned to their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, which they will after the Great Tribulation, then He will put paid to ALL their enemies, but until then there will be no peace no matter what anyone does, says or tries to manipulate until the Prince of Peace arrives.