Trump uncuffing Israel Israel National News Arutz Sheva by Melanie Phillips 21 March 2025
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Day 534 Hamas continues to fight because of aid supplies continuing throughout the war
Biden administration and Western governments provided Hamas with the means to continue to fight, by insisting on aid supplies continuing throughout the war
Indeed, that is a key reason this war, 1. has lasted for 17 months 2. why so many IDF soldiers have fallen 3. why the hostages have been incarcerated for so long in such lethal conditions 4. why so many Gazan civilians have been killed
Israel says the only way to get the hostages back is through military pressure According to Israeli Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi, head of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, this pressure will be ramped up in stages
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The first stage was the aerial bombardment, which was stunningly successful in killing most of Hamas’s top commanders along with hundreds of its troops
If Hamas still refuses to release the hostages, says Avivi, the next stage will be the ground war, which has now started This, Avivi states, will be a decisive attack of a type not seen before to force the release of all the hostages and “create a new reality” in Gaza
US President Donald Trump is not only providing Israel with the weapons to do so but Trump is also supporting Israel’s ban on further humanitarian aid supplies going to Gaza which was how Hamas was able to keep going
