From: The Times of Israel January 19, 2025 Trump’s national security adviser vows Hamas will never again govern Gaza
Mike Waltz says ceasefire should be ‘celebrated’ but adds: ‘if Hamas reneges’ on agreement, US ‘will support Israel in doing what it has to do’
US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Sunday that: If Hamas reneges on the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal, the United States will support Israel “in doing what it has to do.”
Waltz, who is currently a congressional representative for Florida, added in an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” that: “Hamas will never govern Gaza. That is completely unacceptable.”
Waltz added that: 1. the ceasefire should be “celebrated.” 2. “We will see three women coming out alive,” of Sunday’s first release. 3. “Had we not entered this [agreement] these people would have died.”
Waltz said, the hostages held by Hamas have been captive longer than US hostages held during the Iranian crisis in 1979 “but now we’re going to have a Reagan moment.”
That was in reference to American hostages freed after 444 days when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 in a deal that was largely negotiated by the outgoing president Jimmy Carter.
