Israeli-American Journalist Caroline Glick wrote that “if the U.S. wanted a deal, it could have had one that didn’t require these murderers to go free. All Washington needed to do was threaten Qatar, Egypt and Turkey — Hamas’s state sponsors — with actual sanctions for their harboring of terrorists. But no pressure whatsoever was brought to bear on Hamas or its state sponsors, only on Israel.”
Going through the list of terrorists Israel is supposed to release. 734 terrorist murderers. 2000 terrorists in all – in exchange for 33 innocent hostages, dead and alive. The names are a body blow.
— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) January 18, 2025
I remember every single attack these animals carried out. They murdered hundreds…
Avi Abelow: “Hostage Deal a Catastrophic, Immoral Mistake that Endangers Israel and America”
Israeli Hostages Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher have returned to Israel after more than 470 days in captivity in Gaza. Hamas celebrated the prospective release of 90 terrorists as Israel and the United States seemingly caved to terror for an inaugural Trump photo op.
Khaybar Khaybar ya Yahud!
Fun fact: H×mas terrorists wear uniforms only during ceasefire 👇
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) January 19, 2025
During war, they wear civilians clothes, hide among civilians, and when killed, count it as civilian deaths.
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Will anyone in the West finally get it?
— Ella Travels (Ella Kenan) (@EllaTravelsLove) January 19, 2025
It’s truly astonishing to see how Hamas, the ruling authority in Gaza with a military wing that avoided wearing uniforms for 15 months to blend into the population and use Gazans as human shields to maximize casualties and make the West… pic.twitter.com/ziGvEaqDTH
Gateway Pundit guest contributor Avi Abelow wrote from Tel Aviv:
The bottom line is that the release of terrorists who have murdered countless Jews—including the murderer of my dear friend Ari Fuld (may God avenge him)—is a moral outrage. This deal is not just a betrayal of their victims—it’s a catastrophic, immoral mistake that endangers both Israel and America.
From everything I’m hearing, despite an incoming Trump administration (Rubio, Hegseth, Huckabee, Waltz etc.) who all clearly support Israel destroying Hamas and winning this war, it seems that the person at the center of this disastrous ceasefire pressure on Israel is Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy, steering US policy right now in this wrong, immoral and dangerous direction.
Witkoff is openly bragging about pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu into this deal, as if it’s a victory. But this deal is the exact opposite—it empowers Islamonazis all over the world, sends the message that terrorism pays, weakens Israel, and directly undermines Trump’s own doctrine of “peace through strength.”
If the leaders of the America truly cared about protecting lives, saving our hostages and ending this war with the Islamonazis deterred from ever trying to accomplish anything through massacres, rapes and mass kidnappings, then they should have been pressuring Qatar and Egypt, two countries that support Hamas! Those are the pressure points to force Hamas to release our hostages unconditionally! Not pressure on Israel to release Islamonazi monsters to the public to strike again.