“Oct 7 2023”

Not long before he was shot dead by one of the gangs of Gaza, Saleh al-Jafarawi had identified the Hamas internal security forces whose tentacles were spreading out across the territory.

Wearing black baseball caps embroidered with gold and carrying assault rifles as they were stationed from Gaza City in the north to Khan Yunis in the south, the patrols were a sign that Hamas was ready to crush any existential and internal threat.

Three days after posting images of the security forces, Jafarawi, a journalist, was killed by an armed militia, caught in the crossfire as Hamas wrought revenge on gangs that dared to challenge it. A few days after that came the first public executions of men that Hamas claimed were plotting to overthrow the militant group that has ruled by fear since 2007.

October 13, 2025, marks a milestone in the Middle East.

Following President Trump’s facilitation of a peace deal and ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, hostages held by Hamas have been released and returned to their families after two years of captivity in exchange for Palestinian terrorist prisoners. The cessation of hostilities between Israel and Gaza has brought relief to millions affected by the conflict.

One might expect such a development to unite people across the political spectrum in celebration. But the response has been mixed.

Hamas offered starving hostages more food if they converted to Islam — and they refused, according to statements by families of some of the 20 living hostages who were returned to Israel earlier this week.

As part of President Donald Trump’s 21-point peace plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip and expand the Abraham Accords, Hamas turned over 20 remaining living hostages held for more than two years in horrific conditions.

Now, the terrorist group is again playing games by refusing to turn over the bodies of murdered hostages, failing to disarm and engaging in violence against other Palestinian tribes in the Gaza Strip. All violations of the current ceasefire agreement.

Today is a great day for the slandered supporters of Israel’s line led by Benjamin Netanyahu. After the Hamas massacre, despite protests all over the world, Netanyahu pressed ahead with military strength, seeking the release of Israeli hostages and the destruction of Hamas until he achieved the best possible agreement.

It is estimated that more than 80 of the 250 Israeli hostages were killed by Islamic terrorists in the past two years.

Meet Adrian. With round wire-rim glasses, shaggy brown hair, and a beard, he looks like a throwback to the student radicals of the 1960s. His politics are a throwback, too. Standing on a sidewalk in the South Bronx, around the corner from the Mitchel Houses project on Alexander Avenue near East 135th Street, he speaks of war crimes and genocide, of the sins of capitalism and imperialism. He calls on those in the “belly of the beast” need to become seditious and “side with the people of the world” against the United States of America.

For the last two years, when Israelis or diaspora Jews would talk about bringing the last living hostages home, there was a belief their spoken words would never betray: the hostages would not come home. Not all of them. Not all at once.

The hostages were too valuable to Hamas, serving as their only real bargaining chip in a war that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will win on strength, military intelligence and strategy every time. In 2011, Israel exchanged 1,027 prisoners for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas and held in captivity for five years. So what concessions could Hamas extract holding onto a handful now?

But he’s still a despot!

Israeli hostage families have confirmed the identities of three of four bodies handed over by Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday.

The bodies of Tamir Nimrodi, 20, Eitan Levy, 53, and Uriel Baruch, 35, were part of the latest return, the Hostages Families Forum said. Scientists are still working to identify the fourth body.

So far seven hostages’ bodies are confirmed to have been sent back from Gaza. Hamas has yet to return the other bodies as agreed under a ceasefire deal brokered by the US.

Donald Trump has said that Hamas will be forced to disarm after questions swirled around the group’s status following the signing of a peace deal meant to bring an end to the war in Gaza.

Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Trump said: “If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently.

“But they will disarm, do you understand me?” he added, saying it should take place in a “reasonable period of time”.

Horrifying footage has emerged which shows Palestinians being executed by Hamas, sparking fears that the Gaza peace deal is already at risk of collapsing as the terror group tries to cling to power.

In disturbing footage circulating on social media, a group of men can be seen kneeling on the ground with their hands behind their backs.

Armed militants – some wearing Hamas-style headbands – stand behind the victims with their faces covered before gunshots ring out and the seven kneeling men fall to the ground, apparently lifeless.

Hamas is Gaza. Gaza is Hamas. Yesterday’s public executions happened as the “innocent” crowds cheered! pic.twitter.com/uvyBBf0nvT

— Spicy Sonal (@ichkipichki) October 15, 2025

Nothing is more certain than that the jihad against Israel will continue.

Monday was a festive day, with the whole world seemingly celebrating the dawn of peace in the Middle East and hailing President Trump for bringing it about. The president himself, while speaking about the release of the hostages in his speech to the Knesset, promised a bright new world unencumbered by past hatred and animosities: “After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families. Twenty-eight more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time. And after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises on a Holy Land that is finally at peace.”

As if to make up for the fact they had little-to-nothing to do with Donald Trump’s Middle East peace deal, European leaders are now promising to squeeze tens—if not hundreds—of millions of euros out of their taxpayers’ pockets to support reconstruction in Gaza.

But just like those who say they will send ‘peacekeeping forces’ to Ukraine despite the dire state of their armies, these officials lack the economic means.

He forgot Canada!

It didn’t take long for the Hamas Hokey Pokey to return. This time, the terrorists are dancing with the dead — but Israel refuses to dance along with them.

JUST POSTED

President Trump isn’t happy that Hamas hasn’t returned all of the dead hostages to Israel.

He says Phase 2 starts now! pic.twitter.com/yZs31Qk2cD

— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) October 14, 2025

h/t XC

President Donald Trump, when asked about the prospect of a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, declined to commit, telling reporters, “We’ll have to see.”

The comments came during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One as Trump returned home after signing a historic peace agreement that ended two years of fighting in Gaza.

When the topic came up, Trump said he was focused on rebuilding Gaza after two years of Israeli bombardment, following the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre by Hamas.

Trump:

We’re talking about rebuilding Gaza. I’m not talking about single state or double state or two state. We’re talking about rebuilding Gaza.

Some people like the one-state solution, some people like the two-state solution. At some point, I’ll decide what I think is right. pic.twitter.com/msG1Smy4ST

— Clash Report (@clashreport) October 14, 2025

The only people who should be surprised that U.S. President Donald Trump was able to broker a peace deal in Gaza are the ones who continue to underestimate this man.

The fact is, his language is far more deliberate and far more calculating than what often appears to be “top of the mind” or extemporaneous. So when he told Hamas that if they did not come to the peace table, he would give Israel a free hand to “finish the job,” the remaining leaders of that terrorist organization had to consider that Trump was telling them the game was up.

BREAKING: Israeli parliament breaks out in cheers of "TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP"

Netanyahu: "Donald Trump is the GREATEST friend that the State of Israel has EVER had in the White House." pic.twitter.com/BzqnRq2CBH

— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) October 13, 2025

A for effort but peace never lasts when Islam is involved.