Having previously warned last week that “there would be hell to pay” if the hostages were not released by the day of his confirmation, President Trump broke news today that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has been reached. President Trump broke the news via Truth Social:
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DETAILS: “This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Administration would seek Peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans, and our Allies. I am thrilled American and Israeli hostages will be returning home to be reunited with their families and loved ones.
With this deal in place, my National Security team, through the efforts of Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, will continue to work closely with Israel and our Allies to make sure Gaza NEVER again becomes a terrorist safe haven. We will continue promoting PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH throughout the region, as we build upon the momentum of this ceasefire to further expand the Historic Abraham Accords. This is only the beginning of great things to come for America, and indeed, the World!
We have achieved so much without even being in the White House. Just imagine all of the wonderful things that will happen when I return to the White House, and my Administration is fully confirmed, so they can secure more Victories for the United States!”
Steve Witkoff was in Doha this week for negotiations, alongside President Joe Biden’s Mideast adviser Brett McGurk.
Here are President Trump’s previous comments on the issue, where he brought Steve Witkoff to the discussion.
Biden is taking credit
He won’t get far.
Biden is most favored to get the Nobel Peace (sp?) Prize
PoS prize, if there is one.
You beat me to it!
💩🏆 = Biden
Joe should get the “ no bell” prize.
no Ballz prize
“If [he] only had a brain”
Gag….
The IgNobel prize. Apart from science and medicine prices the Nobel prize is corrupted
If FJB gets that, it would be a participation trophy.
Zero cemented that status.
(Oops, I misquoted.) N/M
I guarantee you people are laughing at him.
Is a comma after ‘guarantee’, or after ‘you’.
Both ways work.
He will be taking credit for “that thing, you know, anyways”.
No joke.
On the 15th + TRUMP EFFECT = 100% because Biden aka BYE – DONE said this deal was on the table since MAY and would have stayed on the table if TRUMP didn’t win!
Of course he is, but the percentage of citizens that believe him are drastically lower than years ago.
Even the liberals know that he is shoveling it.
Yeah, and every Arab leader is thanking Trump.
This is great! Makes Democrats look even more STOOPID for replacing him with the even lower rated Kamala. They’re asking, “What if we had kept Biden? He’s not really that bad.” Pelosi+Obama+Schumer = Three Stupid Stooges.
First he beat Medicare, and now this!
Horrible, horrible deal that rewards Israel’s enemies and makes her weak. It is a shame Trump forced Netanyahu’s hand on this forcing him to make concessions he should have never made. Shame!
President Trump didn’t force his hand.
He didn’t have to agree to any deal.
He could have done nothing and allowed President Trump to bring Hell to pay” to Hamas but instead Netanyahu signed a deal with the devil.
I think he wants Hamas left intact to give him political cover.
If Hamas is destroyed then Netanyahu will be immediately thrown out for allowing the attack against Israel in the first place.
Agree.
The opposite. If Hamas stays Bibi loses his base.
I think there is a plan. Can you imagine, as FOX news said that only 23 of the hostages are alive? If those chidren and girls are dead or of the girls have been raped,ALL of Israel will be furious and Israel’s wrath will know no bounds. Right now, I couldn’t care less if Israel completely flattens Gaza. Every household is Hamas.
We need to stop giving money to Israel.
No!!!!
We need to stop giving money to IRAN, LEBANON (Biden just gave) etc ALL ARABS states. Their “brothers” are wealthy enough to help them. They are destroyers of everything.
Nope.
The US supporting Isreal could be the one thing that’s delaying God’s judgment on America
No.
When fullness is complete, judgement will come.
We need to stop giving money to EVERYBODY!
No more dollars for non-Americans!
America always forces its might
Without need, rhyme or reason!
Who is the worse enemy? Hamas (created by Israeli Mossad) ? Or Netanyahu???
well…Homer Les…never get it……
That is a lot of negativity while you not knowing anything of the Cease fire and hostages release.
How many are there left to release?
I am pro-Israel … I understand ALL Muslims want to annihilate them !!!
That said, October 7th should have NEVER happened … this was a MASSIVE Israeli security failure – why ???
Anyway … RELEASE the few surviving Hostages NOW … argue the details later.
The why is high probability Stand-down False Flag.
Stand-down (and more) treason, 100% yes, false-flag, no.
Maybe … but don’t know … Israel is 100% on point 24/7/365 regarding ALL things security … why not on 10.7 … NOTHING that happened that day – leading to the stunning slaughter – makes sense, except … muslim evil !!!
Funny how an Intelligence agency (Mossad) who can brag about a 10 year plan to rig the “Pager” market in order to main and kill their adversaries, yet couldn’t find out about the OBVIOUS plans to start a massacre on 10/7, but had ALL the false propaganda ready to go: to show how bad things were (baby beheadings–FALSE! Baby rapes–FALSE! Killings at a rock concert–Caused by IDF! among the more egregious lies….)
Israel facilitated it. So who is evil?
What makes sense is the fact that Bibi and
crew orchestrated 10/7.
Quit pretending otherwise.
Love humanity, not just those posing as
‘God’s chosen’.
Retired high ranking police officer Avi Weiss (Telecom News):
“On the morning of October 7th, Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar submitted a letter of resignation to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
He submitted his resignation because of two very important facts:
The political factor on which the Shin Bet chief relied is the head of Egyptian intelligence. He deliberately misled us and caused 1,200 people to be murdered and 250 kidnapped. The Shin Bet chief trusted him completely on the eve of the massacre and this is the most serious secret that is being hidden from us.”
Sounds like misdirection to me.
One single foreign agent blinded all Israel’s best to the extensive preparations of their bumbling neighborhood jihadis?
Of course, possible … but … what was Netanyahu’s 24/48 hour schedule/obligations for 10/5,6,7 – was he distracted for ANYTHING – personal, or not.
Egyptians have always been treacherous, slimy and devious -since time immemorial. They allowed tunnels from Gaza to Egypt-over 30 of them if not more. Where do you think all the weapons came from that Gaza has???
From Egypt.
Provided by funding from Israel, along with
permission to strike.
Btw, it occurs to me that the Egyptians threw
out obamas terrorist government.
My, my … definitely “over my pay grade” … but … a detail I was unaware of … and will follow up on. Thank you.
Israel doesn’t rely upon outside sources for their security and surveillance. This is an attempt to deflect.
You know that because, they said so ?
I love Caroline Glick. Her interview with VDH yesterday is significant. She initially wanted answers about the intelligence failures of October 6. Was it done purposely or no? I love Israel. I understand what they’re up against. But the question of the Hamas invasion has yet to be answered. It was horrific as we all know. Israeli defense and intelligence is second to none in the world. The question still lingers. If someone can enlighten me, I would appreciate it greatly. Was it purposely allowed by devious minds?
Doesn’t Glick know the answer to this question?
Intel failure was because Biden et all nixed Paragon. Patrick Byrne speaks about it.
Israel owns it.
No.
It was an Israeli operation.
Because there are lots of leftists in Israel and their own version of a deep state that was willing to sacrifice many of their own people to get BiBi out of office. Sound familiar?
bingo
I’m against the carnage and hate on both sides. Trust me, Israel too has been involved for decades in some of the biggest atrocities but the media dare not mention it. Dur Yassin was one of the biggest atrocities, lead by Menachem Begin. The Israeli lobby owns this country. Pat Buchanan was bold enough to tell the truth.
And the Israelis want to eliminate the Palestinians! Pox on BOTH!
Netanyahu shouldn’t have funded Hamas if he wanted peace.
Israel funded Hamas because Israel wants the land.
An article from the New York Times about how Israel funded Hamas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html
An article from the Intercept about how Israel helped establish Hamas.
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
Israel belongs to God.
Hamas belongs to Satan.
I’ll take God’s Word over man’s word everyday.
The NYT ? Really ?
Always consider the source.
Trust God.
Fear not.
100%
The Bible says nothing about Israel not funding Hamas.
Maybe you’ll accept the Times of Israel as a source.
“For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces. The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
A lot of people don’t even know that we pay the Taliban millions each month. Its all a game. Can’t have the game without a CREATED enemy.
AND IRAN— DO NOT FORGET OBAMA AND BIDEN GAVE IRAN BILLIONS OF OUR MONEY
Yes.
Don’t forget that Iran doesn’t have central banking.
Neither does Russia, libya or Iraq.
How did that work out for libya and Iraq?
Shallow.
Times of Israel is anti Netanyahu BS
If you see him for what he is, you would be too.
Jerusalem Post:
On the topic of Israel’s tacit and direct financial support for Hamas before Oct. 7 in the August 4 interview, Netanyahu claimed,
“It’s not only my government [that supported them]. It’s the previous government, the government before me, and the government after me.”
Netanyahu’s previous government reportedly began transferring $30 million a month to the Gaza Strip in 2014.
Funding Hamas
Additionally, when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sanctioned Hamas in 2018, Netanyahu’s government delivered funds in suitcases.
Throughout this period, Qatari funds would be allowed to reach the Gaza Strip and Hamas until former PM Naftali Bennett ended the transit of money in 2021.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/article-815186
Hegelian Dialectics. Antony Sutton wrote about it in regards to the build up of the liberal lunatic asylum Soviet Union, in his book aptly titled “The Best Enemy Money Can Buy”
It was a great proving ground for what
awaits us.
Well, as the modern Bible was written by man, and the original Bible doesn’t exist, you will have to keep taking mans word for it!
Guess God sanctioned them killing our crewmen on the USS Liberty and sending Jonathan Pollard to spy on us? I’m a Christian and I don’t need Israel’s affirmation to validate my faith. This propaganda that God sanctions everything they do is checking ones brain at the desk. Not to mention, it’s complete bullshit.
The fake Christians and so called “Christian Leaders “🤢
Their total silence regarding the plight
of Christians in Palestine,Lebanon
and Syria……💔
Not even offerings of prayer 🙏.✝️✝️
Only politicians in my country 🇺🇸 expressing
even concern have been Massie and Byron Daniels.
Just. No.Words.🤬😡
The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness there of.
Jews will accept Jesus and the ones that do not
will perish, just like everyone else.
They do not have the Holy Spirit, their hearts
are just as bent to evil as everyone else.
Yep, one of the most sickening things I heard was Jared Kushner saying GAZA was prime real estate!
President Trump said that about North Korea.
Yes.
He said that TO them, not about them.
“Sickening” ?
“Everyone makes mistakes”
~ Pete Hegseth
netanyahu doesn’t make unilateral decisions.
the Knesset votes.
Also, the creation of Hamas subsidizing originated with Yitzchak Rabin.
He was assassinated in an open rally in Tel Aviv.
I say get the Americans back and Isreal can piss off. Time to get rid of every single dual citizen in government too. Enough paying the way for everyone in the Middle East. Put out a moratorium that all Americans leave while they can and after that let them all kill each other for all I and many like me care. Enough is enough. I don’t give damn about either religion or their hatred for each other. America First!!!!
You can’t even spell Israel correctly.
The Americans are dual citizens.
They relocated to Israel, but can still vote in both countries.
YOU are a keyboard terrorist.
Because he doesn’t advocate for us to grovel
before Jews and help them destroy the world ?
Regardless of the motivation for the deal, or who made the decision, it does reward Hamas and will encourage rather than discourage more hostage taking.
If it rewards Hamas then Bibi will be delighted.
I don’t think that’s how to read this. Israel is in terrible financial shape, and the military is increasingly disgruntled about the lack of real progress in Gaza. Netanyahu has a 30-year dream of taking out Iran after blowing through 7 other countries, the same thing the neocons here have been salivating over.
What probably happened here is that Trump said, “Mop things up here Bebe, because we’re not on board with a wider war anymore. We’re going to patch things up with Iran’s ally, Russia, and move off this blood-thirsty trajectory.”
That’s what I think has happened.
Israel has the 5th largest GDP.
It is the military weapons embargo that motivated them.
They have begun to manufacture their own ammunition.
Thanks to the American taxpayer.
babe..not after this war…
NVIDIA has just announced a few billion invested in ISrael
very likely what happen….
Agreed
How is it a horrible deal? That’s short-sighted thinking. Why?
We get the hostages back. First and foremost.We all know HAMAS will not stick to the ceasefire. They won’t. How do we know? They never do. If we know, Trump and Israel know.Once they violate the ceasefire, after the hostages are returned, we will release hell.This bullet is to double down on the point: HAMAS will break the ceasefire, so we can then, whomever they do it to, Israel, more than likely, unleash hell.When 3/4 happens, Israel will not be obliged to stick to their obligations.
they are not releasing them all. They will release them as Israel frees the terrorists. 20 murderers and terrorists for one male hostage. 50 Killers for 1 woman. The deal is for 33 hostages, 65 are not being released. 10 of the 33 are not alive. That’s my understanding.
its not like when Iran released the hostages for Regan.
I get what you are saying about they will break the ceasefire, what if they’ve released 8 and Israel gave them 160-200 terrorists back, then fighting starts. Meanwhile Israel will have aided in their own people’s destruction by giving more aid.
“Israel will not be obliged to stick to their obligations.”
They never do.
But first they have to make up a way to be the ‘victim’.
“HELL TO PAY” would teach other terrorists to give up that life, if they plan on attacking Americans or America. That’s why they don’t kidnap Russians. You remember the guy who bombed a Russian building having his testicles hooked to a car battery and fried until he went comatose? That is one way to deter people who might think about attacking you.
Biden is a corrupt evil Demented man .
I hope He rots in HELL
BeelzeBiden.
I’m not sure that Biden taking credit is “the move” that he thinks it is. And I am certain the hostages and their loved ones don’t care.
It is all he knows… corrupt scumbag.
Mmmmmm… Based on what I’m hearing and seeing if I were Trump I’d be more than happy to let Biden own this. If the details are correct I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. No way!!!
So Trump is taking credit, and so is Biden. This is not good IMHO.
This is horrible news. Releasing murderers in exchange for 20 alive hostages and 13 dead ones will only cause more death in the future. King Solomon would have a difficult time with this decision. Let’s not even talk about the condition of the Bibas babies. Reminder their Mother who was captured as well, her parents were killed and their bodies burned.
Every gain the Israelis made, and every death over 800 men and women, will be for nothing.
Humanitarian aid, etc will have Hamas build back up.
Trump can pressure Iran to not give Hamas supplies and money, but this way the Israeli’s are going to give aid and comfort
to the enemy who wants 100% of them dead.
This is not what MAGA (and me) expected to happen. I only pray that there is something Trump has in mind. It certainly isn’t lost on him all that I just said. Still, I am very concerned.
It will be interesting to see how Trump hunts down terrorists. Prayers up for complete eradication.
Space Force Tracking ? 🤔
Would be freaking AWESOME!!!! I’m personally hoping that Space Force is also tasked with monitoring the “air waves” and the crooked cabal gets rounded up and dealt with accordingly. Here’s to hoping!
Don’t remember where I read it, so for now, the veracity is in question… but Elon is allegedly getting office space at 1600…
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5086935-musk-may-get-office-space-in-eisenhower-building-nyt/
J6’ers were classed as terrorists. The IRA after hundreds of years of starvation and stolen lands were classed as terrorists. Some would call them freedom fighters. I don’t take sides anymore in wars, its pure hypocrisy for money and power.
All wars are bankers wars, the young men die and the old men get richer…
Maybe when they get all the hostages back they will destroy Hamas
Let’s hope they have peace. It’s a lot less expensive for America!
He really is quite amazing isn’t he? Peace what is that cried Bibi.
Effectiveness in government is frowned upon it seems, it makes the globalists including Elon Musk uneasy.
After the OMG James O’Keefe disturbing undercover video dropped yesterday he needs people around him he can trust, Elon is not one of them.
see my post above, about Elon allegedly getting office space at 1600.
I heard Elon got the Oval Office and the Lincoln bedroom! 😉
Now do Ukraine! Now do Ukraine!
And how ’bout converting all the “free money gimme gimme” to a loan with compounding interest for Ukraine to pay back to the US citizens… hmmm?
Thank you, Mr. President. Promise made. Promise kept.
The money was to buy Ukraine, just as Trump will buy Greenland. Easy to take, not much of an army in Greenland.
Funny, the price of fertilizer hasn’t lowered any. What’d we get for Ukraine? Higher wheat prices, higher fertilizer prices, and a couple biomedical labs????
Watch Biden do the victory lap
The only thing Biden can possibly lap is an ice cream cone.
Or maybe his own drool.
I am taking a wait and see position on this. Hamas has never kept to their end of any agreement they’ve made thus far. I will leave it at that.
Wise to take a “wait and see” – particularly when the Israel Security Cabinet has to approve it by Vote, followed by a Vote by the entire Knesset and then there is Hamas who hasn’t signed anything at all.
The Political Hamas Leadership agreed, Brother Sinwar is not happy with some of the conditions.
The Israeli Right Wing won’t like it and the Government may fall again.
You have to follow Mid-East News closely (which I’ve done for almost 2 decades) to know the details.
Absolutely nothing is likely to happen (provided they get to ACTUAL Agreements until Sunday – which is Monday in the USA. One of the interesting things in this “agreement” is that Negotiations begin again 16 days after the first Hostages are released. The Hamas Prisoners (with Blood on their Hands) won’t be returned to Gaza – they will be sent to some other Country of the choice of Hamas.
Bibi gets his weapon replenishment now.
Hamas will have “Hell to pay”
tick tock…
Thank you Bad Dog! NB!
My opinion only, but do folks really think Trump is stupid?
Immediately, my own reaction to the details of release and ceasefire, was REALLY!? Huh? Does not sound like Trump would agree to these crappy swaps.
Way more going on here than what is being allowed to be released to the media. Again, only my opinion.
I do however recall Trump reading “The Snake” often. He knows who the snakes are, let’s all just wait and see.
Dear Joe,
It only took your administration 465 days plus the threat from PDJT to get a ceasefire.
Geeze, even Jimmy Carter’s hostages left sooner.
Another biden failure that we’re supposed to believe was a success.
That was easy. Hmm…why?
Because it’s a distraction technique used by the TPTB for centuries.
“I believe in love, I believe in peace, I believe the things we used to scream in the streets…” I’m in my mid 60’s and I’ve never lived in peace all that crap from the “peaceniks” was exactly that, a load of crap. War is cool as long as its for the right swamp distraction.
Who cares who gets the credit, but if you have a functioning brain cell you know it was because of what’s coming, President Trump.
Hamas Celebrates Ceasefire Deal in Gaza, and With Good Reason – PJ Media–Robert Spencer:
“Hamas jihadis and their supporters are out in force on the streets of Gaza, celebrating the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal as a massive victory for the jihad terrorist group over Israel and the United States. And they have ample reason to believe that the deal is indeed a victory for them.
Donald Trump, however, disagrees. The incoming president is enthusiastic about the deal, writing on Truth Social: “This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Administration would seek Peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans, and our Allies. I am thrilled American and Israeli hostages will be returning home to be reunited with their families and loved ones.” Old Joe Biden’s State Department talking head Matthew Miller agreed, saying: “When it comes to the involvement of President-elect Trump’s team, it’s been absolutely critical in getting this deal over the line.”
That was an uncharacteristic display of generosity from Miller and the Biden regime, and don’t think for a nanosecond that regime wonks have suddenly become appreciative of Trump and his team, and willing to acknowledge when they’ve done something good. Miller’s giving credit to the Trump team is an indication that even the Biden regime knows how bad this deal is for Israel and its allies, and for the free world as a whole. The Biden apparatchiks’ happiness to let Trump take credit is almost certainly in view of the day when all this blows up, and Trump will be the one left holding the bag. …
On the other hand, Trump is making firm assurances: “With this deal in place, my National Security team, through the efforts of Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, will continue to work closely with Israel and our Allies to make sure Gaza NEVER again becomes a terrorist safe haven. We will continue promoting PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH throughout the region, as we build upon the momentum of this ceasefire to further expand the Historic Abraham Accords. This is only the beginning of great things to come for America, and indeed, the World!”
Maybe, but Israel was in a position to destroy Hamas once and for all as a viable organization. Instead, its withdrawal from areas in Gaza will allow it to regroup and gather strength.” …….
Agree. This sure doesn’t sound like a good deal to me. Not at all.
I don’t like or trust Witcoff.
The Hamas Surrender Deal Sets Up Trump to Fail–Daniel Greenfield:
The Trump administration is being tricked into adopting the Biden administration’s Hamas policy.
“Let’s be clear about two things:
1. The Hamas Surrender Deal is the same deal the Biden administration has been pushing all along which consists of Israel giving Hamas everything it wants in exchange for the release of living or dead hostages.
The final terms haven’t yet been made public, but a leaked draft calls for exchanging live terrorists for dead hostages, an Israeli withdrawal, and Qatar being allowed to ‘reconstruct’ Gaza. Attempts to ‘sell’ the deal hinge on such details as whether Israel will be able to go back into Gaza which will be subject to interpretation. Based on past history, the interpretation that will be followed is the one that forces an end to the fighting.
2. The Hamas Surrender Deal puts the Trump administration in charge of then enacting and managing a policy crafted by the Biden administration and Qatar. The consequences when it inevitably falls apart will be on Trump.
Only so much can be known from outside, but Steve Witkoff appears to have been taken for a ride by longtime pros like Secretary of State Blinken and Brett McGurk and is enjoying the flattering media stories about him ‘intimidating’ and ‘cursing out’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Witkoff is being taken for a ride and the Trump administration is being taken for a ride with him. He didn’t succeed, he failed miserably at extracting meaningful concessions from Hamas, and went right back to Biden’s policy of pressuring Israel. Instead of delivering a win for Trump, he delivered one for Biden.
Instead of crafting its own foreign policy, the Trump administration is being stuck with Biden’s policy of pandering to Islamic terrorists.
And that’s a disaster not only for Israel. but for America.
After the initial euphoria of freeing a few hostages, the Trump administration will be stuck managing Gaza, it will be stuck funding the mess, pressuring Israel not to go after terrorists and when the thousands of freed Hamas terrorists kill Americans, the Trump administration will be blamed.
The smart play was to let Israel win the war without getting involved. The dumb play was Witkoff doing whatever Blinken told him to do.
The Trump administration should not let Witkoff hang Biden’s Hamas Surrender Plan around its neck. That’s setting it up to fail and lose, to show weakness, and to be stuck dealing with a never-ending problem in Gaza.” …….
“The smart play was to let Israel win the war without getting involved.”
This was true right from the beginning. This “deal” was a big mistake, because for the sake of being able to celebrate a “win” now, there will be another war a year from now. And then a year after that. And ad infinitum.
I am sure there is another plan. 4 D chess is what Trump does best. I trust Pres Trump and G od.
Victor Davis Hansen said that Witkoff has no authority to make any deals. He also doesn’t have a cabinet position. No one in Trump world does until 12:01 on 1/20/2025.
I don’t think Trump has been fooled.
the Quote from him that The Gipper Lives put in his comment sounds like Trump has loftier goals and has big plans.
I had not seen that quote till just now.
Perhaps I am joining all the doubting Thomases, when I should be trusting him.
And so Hamas are rewarded for killing 1200 and taking 250 hostages by returning hundreds of hardened terrorists who will return to plotting and carrying out cowardly attacks on innocents. In exchange, Hamas releases 30 hostages that may or may not be alive. That’ll teach ’em…🤦♂️. This is a shit deal, I don’t care what PedoPeter OR Trump say!
SAD NEWS
U.S. State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller reports that out of the 7 American hostages in Gaza, only 3 are believed to be alive, while the remaining 4 are confirmed dead.
Evil’s Advantage Over Conscience
Why the West gives Yasser Arafat endless second chances.
By Norman Doidge
The Weekly Standard, Apr. 15, 2002
“…THE STUDENT of human nature who seems best to have recognized the importance of this bizarre dynamic, in which a conscientious hero proves unable to finish off a foe he knows to be evil, was none other than Shakespeare. Indeed, the Bard was obsessed with understanding the phenomenon. Hamlet hesitated to bring Claudius to justice, and he paid with his life and the lives of those he loved. But it is in “Richard III” that one can learn most from characters who see evil, yet freeze at the key moment. The principal characters are fully aware of Richard’s undeniable evil, yet they let him have his way despite themselves. Richard is the most systematically evil character in all of Shakespeare’s plays. “I can smile, and murder while I smile,” he says, swearing that he will outdo all the villains of history “and set the murderous Machiavel to school.” The most important thing Richard knows is that while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it actually blinds us before the most extraordinary ones. The idea that conscience blinds us, making us less able to oppose evil’s most brazen forms, is deeply disturbing, for conscience is the sine qua non of civil society.
Conscience is supposed to be the faculty that helps us become aware of our effects on others and our motives towards them, notably our baser motives. In Elizabethan English, “conscience” is an equivocal word that can mean either that faculty that allows us to feel guilt or “awareness,” as in “consciousness.” When Hamlet says, “Conscience does make cowards of us all,” he means consciousness, by making us aware of the possibility of death, makes us cowardly. But conscience, designed to ferret out evil within, can also actually narrow our awareness of evil. This happens, according to Freud, because the person with a conscience learns to repress automatically his own most destructive inclinations so as not to act on them. He becomes ignorant, for example, of the thrill of evil that a sadist like Richard III feels when he plays God and exercises the freedom to kill whomever he pleases. But the cost of repressing one’s most destructive feelings is an inability to understand, without significant effort, those who give these feelings free rein. This is seen over and over in “Richard III,” especially in Richard’s seduction of Lady Anne, whose husband he has murdered, and it is seen over and over in our dealings with terrorists. Richard actually gets Anne to drop her sword when she’s about to kill him. Anne, although she knows Richard is evil, cannot see that he has no conscience. She tells him he should hang himself for what he has done. She keeps missing the point. He feels no guilt. Eventually, she marries him, and he murders her.
Conscience, when it is functioning well–automatically and without the intervention of reason, so that we do the right thing without thinking–is not simply rational. It is a force, a blunt instrument before which the conscientious person is guilty until proven innocent. As the preventive agency in the mind, conscience blocks first, thinks later. Men like Arafat and Richard know this. That is why both men constantly charge others with crimes–to paralyze them. Both know it doesn’t matter whether the charges are false. Richard brazenly accuses Anne of inspiring the murder of her husband, as Arafat accuses the West of causing terrorism. It is this force inside the psyche of his enemies that the person without a conscience can so effectively enlist as a fifth column. Having himself no such inner force always second-guessing him, he can see it clearly in others–far more clearly than do those who are in its thrall and take each of its charges seriously.
Arafat gets endless second chances because the conscience of the West is doing what a conscience does: second-guessing the West’s own actions. That is why Arafat is always playing upon the conscience of the West, especially by his endless recourse to “international law” and invocation of “human rights,” an utterly brazen ploy coming from a terrorist. Law, in the democracies, is like a civic conscience, and like conscience, it is the bluntest of instruments. Because law, in democracies, is made by the people, it has their respect. Democratic citizens are prone to the illusory hope that the law can be applied successfully in international affairs between regimes regardless of whether they are democracies or tyrannies, strong or weak. The name for this hope is “international law. …
Spooked, America is unwilling to allow Israel to end Arafat’s reign of terror. Washington has retreated into approaching him with a kind of primitive behavior-therapy that says, “If he renounces terror” or “If he controls terror,” then we will talk to him. It is as though all that matters is to get him to say the right words, never mind his intentions; as if no distinction need be drawn between his strategic goal–the destruction of Israel–and a tactical willingness to say he opposes terror.
Arafat has discovered, as Shakespeare understood, that the more brazen and relentless one’s acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one’s door offering to forget, to forgive, and to give forgiveness a bad name.”…….
Rest in the Vine: Jerusalem: Israel’s Eternal Capital. “Evil’s Advantage Over Conscience”
by Dr. Norman Doidge
Thank you!
Why not just kill all the heathens..or let them exterminate each other ?
About those 4 dead Americans…..
I’m sure that the majority of American people would gladly hand over all the traitors responsible in the Biden Admin To Israel to face trials but the big question is why hasn’t Bibi & the Israel government called for their extradition to face charges?
Biden ‘knowingly and unlawfully’ gave $1.5B that helped fund Hamas, other terror groups: suit
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/biden-admin-knowingly-and-unlawfully-gave-1-5b-in-us-aid-that-helped-fund-hamas-terror-groups-suit/
Because Americans don’t answer to the Israeli government.
It does mighty strange that Netanyahu & the Israel government have not called for their extradition, and in fact have been very cozy with them. How do you take this fact on the one hand, and weasels like Democrat Chuck Schumer,Blinken, etc who claim to be pro-Israel, and Jewish, yet allow the Biden criminal admin to fund Hamas with US tax debt dollars?
I keep wondering why Israel & Likud has not called for Eichman trials of the Biden Administration
Maybe because Israel has been funding Hamas too?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
I simply do not buy the Israeli Govts official explanation for what happened on Oct 7.
Its not feasible that they didn’t see this coming.
That they did, and allowed it to occur is unconscionsble and unforgivable,..and entirly believable.
For this and many other reasons, I do not trust Bibi or the Israeli Govt. any more than I trust our own Govt…and so my support of Israeli people and their right to exist is as detached as my support for America is detached from my lack of support for the American Govt.
As for this “deal” lets see how things turn out…
modus operandi for all the IC, they know what will work to bring fear to the population and ensure the founding and support for their operations abroad. 9/11 was not a terrorist attack…🖖🏻
I didn’t buy the 9/11 Fairytale either Dutch. I never focused on how, I focused on why. I found what I was looking for a long time ago. Don’t get lost in the how, look at the why. 10/7 is much the same for a geopolitical agenda, this prevents those pushing for a two-state solution and to finally put an end to this perpetual Jews vs Palestinians dialectic.
Do you remember when Clinton & Rabin where working on a two-state solution? Rabin was assassinated and Clinton “Lewinsky’d”. Democrat frontrunner Howard Dean was a “Tw0-State Solution” presidential candidate who got hijacked by the usually very friendly Uniparty Democrat Mockingbird Fake News media because of that. 10/7 destroyed any chance for that to take place now. In fact the blowback makes it impossible, so many innocents on both sides have been killed.
Yes! Did not see your post prior to my response above. Inquiring minds would love to know the answer!
we never get the real truth
Apply your thinking to 9/11. Same, same?
Just wondering here.
I would disagree with you only because I feel any traitors found should be tried and then hung in the US 🇺🇲
Horrible deal.
This deal ensures that Israelis will be used as human shields.
How many will the 1300 terrorists kill in Israel.
Many of the Israeli victims were killed by the IDF Apache helicopters that fired rockets on the fleeing concert guests. There were hundreds of cars incinerated on the road outside the concert. The photos are all over the
Internet. Hamas didn’t do that and Israeli newspapers admitted the mistake.
Stop spewing lies about Israel.
Big words….you talk the talk, can you walk the walk?
Generally, I would not be in favor of this deal. That said, once we get all the hostages back I would bet many of these Hamas prisoners will die sudden deaths, many from unnatural causes. Their identities are all known.
For every dead hostage, Israel should return 40 dead prisoners.
I hope those terrorists have been given a slow poison Thallium.
I don’t recall seeing this covered on the CTH but I find it very interesting. The Kushners are also personal friends of Benjamin Netanyahu and Jared once gave up his bedroom in Livingston NJ when Bibi was going to the UN
Trump dines with visiting Sara Netanyahu at his Florida golf resort; Yair also attends
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-dines-with-visiting-sara-netanyahu-at-his-florida-golf-resort/
Israel has traded hostages for jihadis for decades,all it does is give the jihadis time to rebuild and try again,The war has gone on for 75 years because of ‘deals’.We would still be fighting WWII if we had conducted it the way Israel has to fight its wars,there is never a winner or a loser,Hamas thinks it has won,and I cant disagree with them, https://x.com/i/status/1879643965525504495
Hostages being released just before Trump takes office. For how long have these hostages been held? Wouldn’t happen to be around 444 days, would it?
Makes for great sound bites for the media today, but there’s also the one constant in all these “deals” with Hamas that history will show time and time again. They’re temporary. Hamas will be back to a shooting war with Israel before the cherry blossoms emerge in Washington.
November 5, 2024 was the most consequential election in human history…straight up fact!
It was more than an election of a U.S. President. We The People voted in the undisputed leader of the free world and painted an American flag on the middle finger we just stuck in the globalists’ faces!
Deus Vult!
It bothers me that President Trump keeps saying “ the hostages will be released soon “
Some of them.
10 are dead bodies.
Hamas steals the aid and abuses the desperate citizens who steal out of hunger. Then the terrorists
Sell the stuff at high prices.
It’s a terrible deal.
But knowing Hamas they will not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. I think the strategy is to get as many hostages free as possible ;knowing Hamas will break
Their end of the deal.
Pray for a miracle for those being held.
January 20 can’t come too soon ,
Hamas already said so
BREAKING After the ceasefire announcement, Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya’s speech live from Qatar. He expressed pride in the Oct. 7th massacre and has promised to do it AGAIN.
This terrorist group cannot be left intact. They will do it again and again.
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1879647386139771228
Bribem says this is the same deal that was offered in May. He is taking credit for this. My question, why didn’t Hamas take the deal then? Or two months later? Why wait until 5 days before Trump comes into office? Oh yea, I forgot– there will be hell to pay.
I can see them telling the Hamas negotiators– when you came into this room, we attached to a tracker to you. You can’t wash it away, it’s not on your clothes, and only we (the US) can track you. So if our hostages aren’t released before the inauguration, you and everyone around you will be vaporized.
Backsies are a bitch.
Leastwise they should be.
Israel ought to make the final call, imo
It’s not going to be fully accomplished for weeks.
This is similar to the November 2023 ceasefire.
the drip drip of hostage releases are because most are dead and cannot be located.
Israel accomplishes more on its own.p, but they need depleted weaponry, badly.
They far exceed the USA cleverness and ingenuity in every way.
No comment yet from infirmed prime minister Netanyahu.
i speculate Trump told him to be patient and “pay with Hell” as soon as Hamas breaches the ceasefire;
they always do. They are irrational savages.
Details of the agreement:
this is not a deal. Hamas will drag it out and Israel will have to go back in. It will come out that Biden was pressuring BiBi and Trump had to stand back because he is not Pres yet.
It was Witkoff who pressured Bibi, not Biden. Trump owns this deal. When the dust settles, that will be clear to everyone. He had to have a win, at any cost apparently. Great deal for Hamas, terrible deal for Israel.
I heard this is a terrible deal and even worse than the one Biden proposed. This is according to Frank Gaffney in an interview with Tony Perkins. Aparently Steve Witkoff has business ties to the Quatar gvt who is involved and the deal is anti Israel.
Only 33 of the 100 hostages realeased. Terrible deal.
Not if you’re one of the hostages released and it has to start someplace!
I think those are the only ones alive. Of the 33, only 23 are alive. If the babies and women have been murdered there will be hell to pay
Does anybody have any statistics on the number of Palestinians killed?
How many of those were Hamas?
I wonder if the timing of a Hamas deal also had something to do with how poorly the Democraps are doing in the confirmation hearings. If hearings can’t be behind closed doors, at least have them not seen live.
A few times today, I went on the links provided here and they were on the breaking news in the middle east.
Just curious.
Hamas Celebrates Ceasefire Deal in Gaza, and With Good Reason
Robert Spencer | 4:08 PM on January 15, 2025
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/01/15/hamas-celebrates-ceasefire-deal-in-gaza-and-with-good-reason-n4936026
Hamas jihadis and their supporters are out in force on the streets of Gaza, celebrating the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal as a massive victory for the jihad terrorist group over Israel and the United States. And they have ample reason to believe that the deal is indeed a victory for them.
How bad is it? It makes a replay, and quite likely more than one replay, of Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, a very real possibility. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) explains the multistage deal’s “first stage apparently includes withdrawing from northern Gaza – which will be immediately repopulated with a million Gazans and will make it impossible to finish removing Hamas terrorists from these areas, and close to impossible to rescue or militarily pressure Hamas to release the remaining two-thirds of the hostages. Thus, Hamas obtains almost all of what it wants in the first stage!”
Excellent!
Bad deal/sad deal. The violent prisoner for helpless victim hostage exchange should be one for one, if at all. Until then, keep pounding relentlessly, day and night
Have the hostages been released?
Because if not, there shouldn’t be any ceasefire but rather an escalation of Israel’s extermination of those roaches.
Biden’s ‘deal’ won’t last five minutes. Hamas will simply restock their supplies.
Monday Pres Trump is sworn in then the deal changes
4D chess
Terrible deal, let Biden take all the credit
biden had afganistan. now TRUMP has GAZA
I didn’t realize it was Monday morning quarterbacking day today.
A lot of armchair quarterbacks roaming around on the internet deciding if this was a good deal or a bad one.
Oh well, opinions are like assholes…
that sounds like an opinion to me
Here’s an accurate and concise analysis of the situation by Dave Chappelle…
https://youtube.com/shorts/PVzWiH3ilKA?
so how long have you been lying down with dogs?
so, if chappelle lies down with dogs, are you ready to join him?
I’m waiting to see the movie! LOL
now that i’ve seen your posts, better than that, I think you he and the dog will be the star attractions.
Saw this earlier
I think it is a zh*t deal because at first glance it rewards hostage takers and murderers.
That swine Biden is claiming credit. He could have done it long ago. Every time Israel was coming close to wiping the terrorists out, Biden, Blinken and Hochstein either leaked plans or publicly told Israel to stop.
Apparently only 23 of the first 33 hostages are alive. They said women and children first.Apparently 2 US hostages are among the first to be released. Chen and Keith Siegal. Well Siegal is old and I think he probably is dead. There are UK hostages too.
This pillaging and hostage taking is what Muslims of old have done. Its their modus operandi. There should be the death penalty for terrorists-shoot them on sight because thousands of them will be released in exchange for these few remaining hostages.
Qatar needs to be dealt with. Iran needs severe sanctions to be reapplied. NO MORE MONEY TO IRAN as Biden and Obama have done
I posted yesterday on the daily thread about the hostage deal underway. It seems that Ben Gvir, Smotrich, and Netanyahu have all been repeatedly sabotaging the hostage and ceasefire talks with Hamas. The Biden administration was lying when it told that it was Hamas who was sabotaging any deal.
President Trump sent Witkoff to Qatar and Israel. Witkoff insisted on a meeting with Netanyahu, despite being the Sabbath. And suddenly it seems that the talks are progressing.
However, it also seems that Blinken was intending to outline a plan for the future that could possibly throw a monkey wrench into the talks which may give Netanyahu an excuse to sabotage the agreements again.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/trumps-action-demonstrates-bidens-failure-in-stopping-the-genocide.html
America First. Stop the killing.
MONDAY 20th Pres Trump is sworn in and he can change the whole bad deal
IMO
america first for real. kill your enemy before he can kill you
WATCH:
BREAKING
After the ceasefire announcement, Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya’s speech live from Qatar. He expressed pride in the Oct. 7th massacre and has promised to do it AGAIN. This terrorist group cannot be left intact. They will do it again and again.
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1879647386139771228
Dear Admin-why are all my comments “Waiting for approval” I dont post incendiary stuff.
Charlotte….I’ve been trying to get your attention re posting “off topic” comments on other threads. Now that I have, I’ll remove the moderation. Thank you! 😉
MAGA !!
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