Last night, while we were sleeping, I am happy to tell you, the IDF made huge progress in its battle in Gaza, conquering new areas in the west, and creating a corridor to prevent Gazans from coming back to areas they evacuated in the north. Photos online show Gazans going out into the streets of their neighborhoods to the sight of advancing Israeli tanks. Like a colony of ants just stepped on, they seem flabbergasted and hysterical.

What part of the word “war” didn’t these people understand?

What part of the word “war” doesn’t the West understand?

No, we are not giving them aid and succor, letting aid boats dock in Ashdod. Are you kidding me? Let them go hungry and thirsty, cold and shelterless. Let them rot until they release our hostages. Until they surrender.

What part of the word “surrender” don’t people understand?

How does the average Ahmad in Gaza feel now? Here are some social media posts translated by Abu Ali Express from the Arabic into Hebrew (and myself into English):

• “As a Palestinian citizen and an uprooted Gazan who has lost so much, what did I gain from October 7?”

• “Gaza has sacrificed so much so that Haniyeh, Mashal and Abu Marzouk can stay in their hotels. All this sacrificed so they can style their beards with lasers and Haniyeh’s lips can blush red. Enough! Enough already!!”

• “We are slaughtered and our children, wives, old people and youth, our homes, our money is destroyed and all for nothing…”

• “What’s important is the guys in Hamas still have it good, the ones that sent the rockets from the north, the collaborators who caused the IDF tanks that had already left to turn around and come back. What do you want from us?! Do you want to get every one of us killed? To annihilate us?”

• “Until when do people have to wait for this war to end? Practically, the ‘resistance’ hasn’t succeeded in preventing areas getting blown up and destroyed, hasn’t prevented citizens and their children getting killed, or the ground invasion to every area in Gaza going forward. It hasn’t prevented enemy soldiers from filming videos of themselves mocking us from inside our homes, schools and on the beach front, where they show themselves carefree and relaxed. Except for those drug-takers who talk about ‘standing firm,’ and ‘honor,” and ‘resistance.’ The truth is, the ‘resistance’ has failed in protecting its people, and the politicians continue to wait until the last Gazan child is dead. All this in whose honor? For what purpose? So that Sinwar and his gangsters can come out like heroes in front of the Jordanians? Those who know, know. And those who don’t are sitting in their tunnels.”

If you read this, you’ll understand just exactly what Sinwar and Haniyeh are counting on: Israel willingly leaving under blackmail. They have no army, hardly any weapons, and their rocket launchers, cleverly hidden deep in the ground and that only rise into the open by remote control to shoot, even those have been found and dismantled because the IDF are geniuses.

No, all they have left with which to fight this war is the torture of our hostages and their use as bargaining chips. That’s their only weapon. If they succeed, then hostage-taking will become the weapon of choice of every terrorist in the world against Israel and the Jewish people, and not a single one of us will be safe, ever.

As much as our hearts bleed for each one taken and held, as much as we are prepared to sacrifice to rescue everyone, we can’t let this Nazi-inspired terrorist organization use this weapon to defeat us. We must continue and defeat them so that even the average brainwashed Gazan will remember: this is what happens to those who attack Jews. They get destroyed. They go hungry, homeless, cold in mud-soaked tents.

No one is coming in to save them, not their “fearless leaders” who started all this, the Sinwar rats in Gaza; nor their billionaire leadership in five-star Qatari hotels. Not truculent, loud-mouthed Turkey, not bloviating Iran, who is also getting bombed. No, it’s just the Gazans and the Israelis – who have shown they can do whatever they want to them. So the next time Dad gets a phone call from junior, all excited, who says: “Dad I killed Jews! Dad!” Dad will answer: “You f***ing idiot, you’ve destroyed us.”

We cannot lose this war because of Biden’s plummeting poll numbers among Hamas-supporters in Michigan. We have to ignore him, even if it means he gets angry. Better that than sacrificing our precious Israel on the altar of the Democratic Party’s reelection campaign.

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