Trump uncuffing Israel Israel National News Arutz Sheva by Melanie Phillips 21 March 2025
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Israel no longer has to fight America
Hamas left Israel no alternative but to resume the war and this
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second stage of the war is different from the first because Israel no longer has to fight America, too
Israel's agonizing dilemma
The resumption of Israel’s war in Gaza has produced a predictable reaction in a world that remains determined to malign the Jewish state
A host of Western media declared that Israel had ended the ceasefire In fact, the ceasefire had ended more than two weeks earlier
1. Although Israel had agreed to a further US-brokered deal 2. Hamas, rejected it and refused to release any more hostages
Hamas left Israel with no option but to resume the war, which it did with an aerial bombardment of Gaza
The terror group instantly stated that the bombardment had killed 400 Gazan civilians This was absurd because Hamas couldn’t have known the number of casualties so fast and as usual, it omitted any Hamas operatives in the total
Yet in typically reflexive fashion, the Western media parroted this incredible figure without questioning it
No less predictable have been the Israeli protests that by resuming the war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has abandoned the hostages — of whom 24 are said still to be alive
The most bitter and agonizing reproach has been voiced by some of the former hostages who have accused Netanyahu of ignoring everything they’ve been telling the world about the horrific conditions in which the captives are being held
There can hardly be a single person in Israel who doesn’t desperately want the hostages back home And there’s no denying the genuine anguish at the failure to get them all back
Their plight is beyond horrific and the profound emotionalism of the public response is entirely understandable Unfortunately, such emotion is a barrier to clear and unavoidably brutal thinking
The only way Hamas will return all the hostages is if Israel surrenders and leaves it in power The reason it took the hostages in the first place was to ensure that Israel could never win against it
