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WSJ: Yes, Hamas Caved. Trump Left Them No Choice.
« on: Today at 08:47:44 AM »
WSJ: Yes, Hamas Caved. Trump Left Them No Choice.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/10/13/wsj-yes-hamas-caved-trump-left-them-no-choice-n3807766

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When we argued that Joe Biden couldn't have possibly cut this deal, we had no idea how correct we had been.

To some surprise, Hamas actually and finally gave up its last remaining living hostages today. In doing so, they also parted with the last bit of leverage they have in order to come out of the war they launched two years ago with any sort of face-saving concessions. So why did they agree to this capitulation? Donald Trump left them no choice, having cut off every other diplomatic and military option, as the Wall Street Journal reports today:

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Egypt and Qatar told Hayya the deal was his last chance to end the war, according to the officials. They pressed Hamas to understand that holding the hostages was becoming a strategic liability, giving Israel a source of legitimacy to keep fighting.

The next day, joined by Turkey, they warned him that if Hamas didn’t approve the plan it would be stripped of all political and diplomatic cover; Qatar and Turkey would no longer host the group’s political leadership, and Egypt would stop pressing for Hamas to have a say in Gaza’s postwar governance, the officials said.

Trump won this war in June, when he made an unapologetic decision to intervene with military strikes in Iran. Those strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities completely shook up the order in the region, which had settled into an Iranian track toward dominance. Israel had already done most of the damage by wiping out Hezbollah's upper echelons and their banking system, which led directly to the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the rise of a new Syrian regime that detests the mullahs in Iran. However, the strikes by Trump on Iran forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions and recalculate for a president who had no problem ordering military force to defend and protect American interests.
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The Biden Regency would never have flexed power in that fashion. Biden's handlers wanted a Grand Deal with the Tehran mullahs and spent four years attempting to appease them enough to get a re-do of the JCPOA, Barack Obama's useless Iran deal. Less than five months after taking office, Trump made clear that those days were over, and that message resonated in every capital in the Middle East.

LIEden & minions also still worshipped at the altar of the chimeric Two-State Solution.
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Re: WSJ: Yes, Hamas Caved. Trump Left Them No Choice.
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Apparently the inept former Secretary of State Blinky and the cadaverous Jake Sullivan were doing the rounds on the unwatchable Sunday morning shows, and were claiming credit for the deal. Well here's the reason you didn't make it: It gave Israel more than you were ever willing to.

Sometimes diplomacy from a different tactic works far better than your foreign policy bona fides and academic/think tank credentials. It takes an unorthodox dealmaker to solve problems.
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Re: WSJ: Yes, Hamas Caved. Trump Left Them No Choice.
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Apparently the inept former Secretary of State Blinky and the cadaverous Jake Sullivan were doing the rounds on the unwatchable Sunday morning shows, and were claiming credit for the deal. Well here's the reason you didn't make it: It gave Israel more than you were ever willing to.
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Dem and Foggy Bottom policy since at least Obama, if not during Clinton's MalAdministration, has been the perpetuation of a status quo in which Israel was constantly rocketed and shelled and raided until their chimeric Two-State Solution somehow magically happened. Israel had the temerity to push back against LIEden's efforts to stop Israel from dishing out FAFO to Hamas. Whether Israel believed that Trump or some other R was likely to become President in January 2025 or they simply decided that Hamas had crossed a line and Israel was going to fight back regardless of US pressure, I don't know.

Israel's nearly 2 years of hitting Hamas, September 2024 decapitation of Hezbollah (I think Israel knew by then that LIEden would/could not react negatively and decisively), Israel's hits on Iranian military capacity and leadership (after Trump became President), the USAF's hits on Iran's nuclear program, and Trump's diplomatic efforts in the Arab world (plus Turkey) left Hamas severely damaged and isolated from international military and diplomatic aid.
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