There is a frightening defect in the Israel-Hamas ‘deal’ – the terrorists live to fight on

Jan 19, 2025 by

by Charles Moore, Telegraph:

The freeing of hostages is grounds for rejoicing – but the perpetrators of the October 7 pogrom remain in place to murder again.

On October 7 2023, Hamas murdered more than 1,200 people in Israel and abducted 251. The deal which begins its enactment tomorrow, provides for the release, in phases, of the estimated 94 hostages still held by Hamas, of whom, the Israeli government calculates, 34 are dead. In return, Israel will let hundreds of Palestinian terrorist prisoners out of its jails, withdraw its troops from densely populated areas of Gaza and let in 600 aid-carrying lorries every day.

Most of the world seems pleased. There are reasons to be so, and I shall come back to them. But first it needs to be said that the deal represents two major victories for Hamas.

One is that it legitimates them as a continuing force in Gaza. They will remain on the ground and Israel will not. Hamas now know they will be part of future negotiations. Plenty of malign actors – many of them in Western governments, policy elites and media – will even start to hail them as peacemakers.

The other is that the deal will prove to the satisfaction of Hamas that hostage-taking works. If they had simply murdered those 1,200 plus people on October 7, they would have won themselves no protection against Israeli retaliation. Because they took the hostages, they were able to make Israel hesitate, divide Israeli politics, manipulate Western opinion and gain diplomatic advantage.

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