Mick Hume, European Conservative.
President Trump’s remarkable Middle East deal has led to the release of the last 20 surviving hostages of the 251 seized by Hamas terrorists during the October 7th pogrom in Israel. The end of their suffering, after two years of hell, should be a cause for celebration not only for Israelis but for anybody who wants to see an end to terrorism and war in the Middle East.
Yet strangely, some in Europe and the West seem less than enthused about the first stage of Trump’s peace deal. The pro-Palestinian protestors who have long demanded Israel submit to a “Ceasefire now” have sworn to continue fighting, despite an actual ceasefire coming into force.
Much remains uncertain about what will happen next in the Middle East. But Trump’s deal has already made some things very clear about what’s been happening in Europe and the West.
It should now be clear that the protestors are not interested in peace or primarily concerned with saving Palestinian lives. Instead, they are motivated above all by hatred of the Jewish state of Israel.
If you seriously believed that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, wouldn’t you be pleased to see the allegedly genocidal war come to an end? So why do so many who have cried “genocide” over the past two years seem unhappy about Trump’s deal?
Because, as various Palestinian solidarity groups made clear in response to the announcement of Trump’s deal, their war is “not over until Zionism is completely eradicated”; it is “not over until the Zionist entity ceases to exist.”
What the Islamists and their Islamo-left allies in the West want is the complete defeat and destruction of Israel. No peace deal could be enough for them unless the Israeli state agreed to sign its own death warrant.