This Is My Last Warning – RedState

Hamas, hunkering in the rubble of Gaza, still holds, by best estimates, 50 hostages. Only 20 of those are believed to still be alive. Now President Trump, talking to assembled media on Sunday, issued what seems to be an ultimatum to Hamas, demanding the release of all hostages.

President Donald Trump issued his “last warning” to Hamas to settle for his deal and release the remaining hostages or face the implications.

“Everyone wants the hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well.”

“I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting,” he continued. “This is my last warning, there will not be another one! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Last month, Trump said the remaining hostages would only be returned when Hamas is “confronted and destroyed.” At the time, Hamas was citing alleged progress in ceasefire talks.

I’ll offer a prediction that being that Hamas will not settle for any phrases from the United States or from Israel. If they had been in a cease-fire, they’d have accepted an offer before now. And if they did settle for a cease-fire, it might only be to buy time, to re-quip, recruit, prepare, and typically prepare for the next assault. If there’s one factor we must always find a way to decide from Hamas’s historical past, along with the historical past of all such Islamic terror teams, it is that they can not be trusted any farther than a toddler can throw an plane provider.

This is Israel’s struggle, granted, but the United States does have an curiosity in seeing Hamas eliminated from the world. Americans had been taken hostage on October seventh as properly, and any Americans in the world might be taken again, ought to there be a recurrence of the October seventh assault.

This is not the first such ultimatum that Hamas has ignored.

In July, the U.S. and Israel pulled negotiators from Qatar after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff said Hamas confirmed a “lack of desire to reach a ceasefire” and was doubtless not negotiating in good religion.

On Aug. 26, Witkoff told Fox News’ Bret Baier on “Special Report” that he and Trump needed the hostages home that week. 

“There’s been a deal on the table for the last six or seven weeks that would have released 10 of the hostages out of the 20 who we think are alive,” he said, noting that he believes Hamas is “100%” to blame for the hold-up.

Hamas is “100 percent” to blame for all the things that has occurred in Gaza and in Israel, every act of terror, every homicide, every atrocity, since (and, candidly, before) October 7, 2023.

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Israel is now making ready another offensive against Hamas and has issued warnings for civilians to go away the areas that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) might be transferring into to have interaction Hamas. While we are able to admire Israel’s makes an attempt to reduce deaths and accidents among civilians, not only does this inform Hamas exactly where the IDF goes to have interaction, but the release of civilians also permits Hamas fighters to change garments and mix into the population, escaping to struggle another day. This occurred in Iraq in 2003, and is probably going to occur right here as properly.

There is just no straightforward reply to this downside, but one factor stays sure: There might be no peace, no stability, no security in Gaza or in Israel until Hamas is totally and totally eliminated from the board.

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