We have on the table a blueprint for a ceasefire with the exchange of hostages from Hamas, surrendering the hostages they took on Oct. 7 two years ago, and then perhaps as many as, eventually, 1,700 terrorists, some of them convicted murderers, will be given back to what is left of Hamas. And then, more importantly, Donald Trump allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in this tit-for-tat missile barrage that Israel and Iran had waged, he allowed them to go into Iranian airspace and to destroy Iranian air defenses, and to take out a lot of the generals and physicists and weaken Iran. And once they’ve looked at the moonscape in Gaza and what’s happened to the elite of the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist cadres, they knew that they did not want to get on his bad side.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-10-14 21:40:24
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