Thoroughly emboldened by these useful idiots, Hamas has just announced that they want Israel to free 16,220 ‘Palestinian’ terrorist prisoners for 64 Israeli hostages.

JNSNot surprisingly, the international media has still not published these Hamas demands. For if they did so, it would instantly become clear that not Prime Minister Netanyahu but Hamas is the one holding up a deal. 

When Hamas’s barbaric execution of six Israeli hostages was announced on the news, it sent immediate shock waves throughout Israel. It evoked the deepest of Jewish traumas—that of helplessness. After the shock came the rage. But the targets of that rage were not the same for everyone. The Israeli X (formerly Twitter) feed was neatly divided. The right-wing feed was outraged at Hamas. The left-wing feed was outraged at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Those in the West who support Hamas are useful idiots.

You can’t support Hamas and be “progressive” and “liberal” at the same time.

Hamas exists to destroy true liberalism.

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Astonishingly, the overwhelming majority did not even contain the word “Hamas.” If you had only those tweets to go by, you might have reached the conclusion that Netanyahu murdered the hostages and that Hamas had nothing to do with it.

Here’s a tiny sample:

“Sorry Hersh,” tweeted Haaretz journalist Chaim Levinson. “Sorry that we failed to convince the narcissistic psychopath that leads us that your life is worth something.”

A guy named Yossi Zabari tweeted, “Every citizen in the world needs to recite [these] words this morning: Netanyahu is a murderer.”

“The government of destruction … has decided to pass a death sentence on the hostages,” wrote Knesset member Yair Golan, the current head of the Labor Party’s new incarnation (now known as the Democrats).

Opposition head Yair Lapid tweeted, “Instead of doing everything to bring them back home Netanyahu is doing everything to remain in power.” 

The former head of the Labor Party, Shelly Yachimovich said: “The hostages were murdered by Hamas, but the blood is on Netanyahu’s hands.”

And so it went 0n and on.

Right-leaning tweets were very different. Apart from directing their anger at Hamas, posters made many suggestions on how to hold it accountable, how to retaliate and how to deter Hamas from ever raising a hand on a hostage again.

One X user said Israel should start executing scores of terrorists held in its jails, and especially those that Hamas wants to free in a ceasefire deal. Others said it was high time that Israel enact capital punishment for terrorists. Still others said that no “humanitarian aid” should enter Gaza until the hostages are in our hands.

The left feed has been insisting that the hostage issue ought to be at the top of our agenda, overriding all other issues. And so it begs the question—why are these same people so consistently uninterested in any idea designed to pressure Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to give the hostages up?

The answer is obvious: The hostages are an excuse. The protestors’ real interest is toppling Netanyahu’s coalition, which is why that is all their tweets talk about. And what is more chilling, they continue their war on the coalition even when it is clearly at the expense of the hostages, as many of them no doubt understand.

One must be very naïve not to see that demonstrating for concessions from our own government in response to the execution of hostages only tells Sinwar that this atrocious strategy is working. Why would that cold-blooded terrorist not do it again and wait for the protesters to do his work form him? 

At Netanyahu’s Sept. 2 press conference, he presented a translation of an Arabic, hand-written note found in a tunnel earlier in the war. The note laid out Hamas’s strategy to manipulate Israelis into fighting each other instead of uniting against Hamas. 

The note contained these bullet points:

• Increase the dissemination of pictures and videos of the hostages because of the psychological pressure they create.

• Do everything to increase the psychological pressure on [Defense Minister] Gallant.

• Continue the line [of argument] that Netanyahu is responsible for what has happened.

• Sabotage the narrative that a ground operation serves the returning of the hostages. 

It’s obvious that Hamas and the “Never-Bibi” demonstrators are  literally working from the same operating manual,  playing the part Sinwar has written for them?

Backing up the theory, a detailed document on Hamas’s strategic planning has surfaced in the German Bildnewspaper. The plan specifies that blame for the failure of any deal should be shifted to Israel, and that Hamas should “continue to exert psychological pressure through the hostages’ families—so as to increase through them the public pressure on the enemy government.” 

As Khalil al-Hayya, Sinwar’s deputy for negotiations, recently reiterated, Hamas’s demands for a deal have not changed. They are tantamount to an Israeli surrender:  

1. A permanent ceasefire.   

2. A complete withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces from all of the Gaza Strip, including the security parameter along the border, the Philadelphi Corridor and the Netzarim Corridor (which cuts the north of the strip from the south just below Gaza city). 

3. Rebuilding the whole of Gaza. 

4. An exchange of 50 terrorists for every female IDF soldier and 30 for every civilian in the first stage, then 500 terrorists for every male soldier in the second. 

These terms will eliminate all Israel’s gains in this war and ensure that Hamas remains in power, able to rebuild its military capabilities with Iran’s help, and its front-line cadres fresh from Israel’s jails. But No prime minister of Israel can accept these terms because Israel’s public won’t. 

And then, mistaking the press coverage for reality, the Biden administration seems to have felt that perhaps the wave of anger that will topple Netanyahu has finally arrived. The president therefore chipped in, reversing earlier statements that put the blame on Hamas. He did it with a single word. Asked whether he thought Netanyahu was doing enough to conclude a hostage deal, the president simply said “no.” But that too had little impact. 

For most Israelis, the question now is not who is responsible for the disaster, but who can lead us to victory. And the answer to that question cannot possibly be a Chamberlain in the guise of Benny Gantz, Yoav Gallant or Yair Lapid, all of whom are willing to cave in to Hamas’s demands and leave it on its feet at the end of this war. 

Netanyahu has never wavered on this one issue: The Gaza campaign must end with the clear defeat of Hamas. Nothing less. In this, he represents the majority in Israel. And it is that majority that has—and will—sustain him so long as he stays on this course.

BELOW: Al-Jazeera, funded by terror-sponsor Qatar, is only too happy to feature American Jews on its network as long as they are anti-Israel:

Why do so many leftists struggle to condemn Hamas? Why do so-called progressives make excuses for Jew-killing, misogynistic, gay-bashing Islamists? It’s a long and damning story. Here, Tom Slater traces the history of the Islamo-left, an unholy alliance between left-wingers and Islam0fascists that has once again burst out into the open following the pogrom in Israel on 7 October.