Smells like a trap

The organization has the singular purpose of ending the existence of the Jews and removing Israel from the global map.

In a classic gambit that terrorists use to flee from a cornered situation, Hamas has offered to release up to 15 hostages in exchange for a 48-hour “pause.”

The terror organization is trapped in the tunnel network it created as a hiding place, but that now threatens to be their grave due to the relentless assault of the Israeli ground forces.

The world’s bleeding hearts, led by the United Nations, are being misled into allowing Hamas to regain lost ground and even allow some of its leaders to retreat to friendly territory with the implementation of a two-day truce.

Spreading hatred globally has worked for Hamas as anti-Semitism is on the rise in some parts of the world as the Israeli offensive to hold Hamas accountable and to get the hostages released takes its toll.

Hamas is using more than 200 hostages, including two Filipinos, as bargaining chips as the terror group fights for survival.

Hamas engineered the 7 October massacre that killed more than 1,400 civilians in an event that is being compared to the Holocaust of World War 2, where 6 million Jews were slaughtered.

According to diplomats spearheading the negotiations and some UN officials, the temporary truce will allow “more aid, including limited amounts of fuel, to enter the besieged territory.”

Instead of a ceasefire, Israeli officials said the government would take full responsibility for the rescue of the hostages and the eventual rehabilitation of the devastated Gaza Strip.

Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely after its war with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an American news outfit.

Netanyahu expressed openness to limited “pauses” but did not say how this would be carried out, while he ruled out a ceasefire without the release of all the hostages.

The original position of Israel was that the war would not relent until all the hostages were released and Hamas was obliterated.

The bottom line is Hamas can’t be trusted. The organization has the singular purpose of ending the existence of the Jews and removing Israel from the global map.

In its charter, called The Covenant of the Hamas, the terror syndicate indicates in the preamble that “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until  Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

In article 15 of the Covenant, Hamas calls for a so-called holy war, saying that “The day the enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem.”

“In the face of the Jews’ usurpation, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.”

The fundamental law of the terror group is also stated in article 33, “Ranks will close, fighters joining other fighters and masses everywhere in the Islamic world will come forward in response to the call of duty, loudly proclaiming: ‘Hail to  Jihad!’ This cry will reach the heavens and will go on being resounded until liberation is achieved, the invaders vanquished, and Allah’s victory comes about.”

The devious objective specified in its guiding law reflects the purpose of any action that it undertakes has hatred as the underlying principle.

Such vile emotions were the driving force for a fully armed terror army of more than 3,000 to attack and brutalize unarmed civilians of different nationalities in their assault on Israeli communities near the Gaza border.

Hamas officials have vowed to repeat the atrocities on Israel.

The world has lost the rationale for ending the capability of Hamas as a signal to other terrorist groups that the use of intimidation and fear would not succeed in pushing the the civilized world to its knees.

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