“While it is currently unclear exactly what the government intends,” according to Daniel Flesch, a senior policy analyst in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation, “the message to Hamas is clear: We intend to take from you the one thing you value most—territory.” “Perhaps the realization that the war it began on Oct. 7, 2023, will end not with an expansion of Palestinian-controlled territory, but a diminution of it, will compel the terror organization to release the hostages it is currently starving and end the war,” Flesch told The Daily Signal. By any reasonable metric, Hamas has lost this war, and since they have refused repeated offers to exchange the hostages for a ceasefire, the recent videos of their torment have forced the prime minister’s hand,” Victoria Coates, vice president of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal.
Author: Virginia Allen
Published at: 2025-08-04 22:45:00
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