Hezbollah deal bad news for Hamas, good for world

It wasn’t a good Thanksgiving for Hamas. Not that the terrorist group celebrates the American holiday, but it has to be feeling particularly un-thankful as its chokehold on horror seems to be slipping following the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal.

“I do think that Hamas is feeling the pressure. They’re feeling the pressure because one of their main partners in crime here, Hezbollah, has now cut a ceasefire deal, and they thought that Hezbollah would be with them till the end,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday.

The deal to end fighting across the Israeli-Lebanon border was reached last Tuesday, and spurred a new energy for a ceasefire in Gaza from the Biden administration, as The Hill reported.

Peace is bad news for Hamas, its objective has and continues to be the annihilation of Jews and Israel. Hence the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of innocents, spree of atrocities and kidnapping of hostages into Gaza.

Sullivan added that Hamas is also feeling pressure after the October killing of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas and the architect of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

“They’re feeling the pressure, of course, because their top leader, Sinwar, has been killed,” Sullivan said. “So, they may be looking anew at the possibility of getting a ceasefire and hostage deal. And we are working actively with all of the key players in the region, including Israel and Turkey and Qatar and Egypt, to try to bring that about. In the coming days, conversations will be happening, even this very day, to try to make that happen as soon as possible.”

Hamas has scored a win on one front: propaganda. By hiding hostages amid the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza, it guaranteed that more innocent lives would be lost as Israel fought to bring the hostages home and rout out the terrorists. The impassioned and uninformed rebel class thriving on U.S. college campuses has parroted Hamas’ anti-Israel propaganda with glee.

The hostages mean nothing to them, and incidents of people tearing down posters of the men, women and children still being held in Gaza made for shameful headlines.

It hasn’t stopped.

As the New York Post reported, a staffer in New York City Mayor Eric Adams administration whose mission includes fostering “unity” and bridging “cultural divides,” is under fire for ripping down an Israeli hostage poster.

Nallah Sutherland, a special event coordinator for the Mayor’s Office of Special Projects and Community Events, was spotted earlier this month tearing down the poster from an Upper East Side light pole, ripping it up and dumping it in a trash bin, according to video posted online by the social media platform Jews of NY and nonprofit StopAntisemitism.

A City Hall source told The Post that Sutherland, 25, got a disciplinary note added to her permanent work file and was required to take “multicultural training.”

Enraging? Yes. Surprising, no.

Antisemitism has soared since Oct. 7 around the U.S. and globally, with Jews being blamed, essentially, for attacks against them. Repercussions for antisemitic actors are anemic.

But the Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire offers hope: the possibility of a Middle East without the talons of terrorists like Hezbollah, Hamas and others choking the life out of the region.

That would be the best reason to give thanks.

Source » yakimaherald