Joe Biden’s presentation of his own, personal ceasefire proposal (which is, shock, shock, identical to our genocidal enemy Hamas’ plan and one Israel has rejected time and again) must set a new record for international chutzpah. Putting it forth on Friday, after religious Jews in Israel would be unable to react because of the Sabbath, wasn’t an oversight, but probably a well thought out strategy probably devised by the same PR firm that convinced Biden to present himself as fighting for the plan against Hamas’ refusal, instead of the complete opposite: fighting with Israel to approve a genocidal capitulation and surrender; something that would make every single soldier’s life lost on the battlefield completely meaningless.

This is Joe Biden’s vision: Israel will take all its troops out of Gaza, leaving Hamas in charge and ready for its next October 7. Gazans, many of whom participated in the slaughter, will go back home like nothing happened. And the ones in Israeli jails? Oh, thousands of Hamas Nazis will be released including convicted rapists and murderers, signing the death warrant for thousands of Jews, if the Shalit deal is any measure.

And for all this, we will get only 33 hostages or dead hostage bodies over the first six weeks with negotiations for a “second stage” without a time frame, for the remaining 100 hostages or their bodies for which thousands more Hamas murders will be released. The temporary ceasefire will become permanent, until the next war.

Tell me, does this sound like a plan that will allow Israel to live in, or national suicide?

Michael Douglas, the actor, is in Israel, and he visited Be’eri, site of the worst Hamas atrocities. He said: “I don’t know how you get over the desire for revenge.”

Yes, Mr; Douglas, very astute. And I wonder if any self-respecting democratic nation should get over such a desire? One wonders, too, if the Nazis had presented a similar cease fire plan to Roosevelt and Churchill, one that released Nazi murderers en masse, and left Hitler and the Nazi Party firmly in control in Berlin, would that have been appreciated and lauded as a breakthrough?

Biden’s plan is indecent, a betrayal, and not the work of any friend.

This doesn’t mean there won’t be Israelis who want any hostage deal at any price screaming in our streets for Netanyahu to accept, and thanking Biden for his “help.” To these I will paraphrase the great orator Demosthenes, by way of Douglas Murray’s column in The Free Press:

First, people of Israel, you must fix this firmly in your minds, that Hamas is at war with us and has broken the peace. Many would like to pretend otherwise, to appease or look away, or hope for the best. And continuing the fight will mean great expense and much toil and worry. But what you must bear in mind is that this is a life-and-death struggle, and the men who have sold themselves to false illusions must be abhorred… for it is impossible to quell the foes without, until you have dealt with those within your gates.

In the middle of the Israeli “genocide,” the IDF yesterday established a maternity care center at a field hospital in central Gaza, delivering equipment, including generators and incubators.

I don’t know why we bother. According to this video, Gazan mothers don’t care if their children live or die, and are actually hoping they’ll become martyrs for the cause. Think I’m heartlessly exaggerating? Listen carefully to the words of this Palestinian woman who says: “We don’t value life. We love death. When one of yours dies, it shakes up your whole world. For us it is natural, normal.” For her son, recuperating from injuries in a hospital, she prays he gets well enough to die as a martyr.

The West has no idea what we in Israel are dealing with and what is coming their way soon. The new Dark Ages.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah is busy decimating Israel’s North. On the Golan and around the Sea of Galilee, heavy Hezbollah rocket fire caused many wildfires. And school children in the North can be seen running off their school buses to bomb shelters as sirens go off.

Sirens have gone off in Acre, Nahariyah, etc. etc. My hairdresser lives in Nahariya, but I guess my hair is going to have to grow longer until I can visit her there. All of us are fed up and waiting for a decisive victory that will allow us to resume normal life.

A shaky, temporary ceasefire that fills the hearts of murderers and lovers of death with hope won’t do it, Mr. Biden. If we release a single Hamas murderer from our jails, it will only begin the countdown to the next hostage taking, murder and rape festival. Don’t you get that?

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