Hamas\u2019s rapid concessions to the tough ultimatums issued by the U.S. at the end of September show that the war in Gaza could have been stopped long ago if the international community had immediately applied stronger pressure on Hamas.<\/b><\/p>\n
At the end of September, U.S. President Donald Trump placed heavy pressure on the terrorist group Hamas and gave them an ultimatum of \u201cthree or four days\u201d to respond to his proposed peace and reconstruction plan for Gaza. He warned the group of brutal consequences if they rejected the agreement while the Israeli offensive continued.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s proposal was announced at a joint press conference in Washington with Israel\u2019s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and aimed for a definitive end to the two-year-long war.<\/p>\n
When asked how long Hamas had to respond, Trump said on Tuesday:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll hold out for about three or four days,\u201d and later warned that Hamas would face serious consequences if they refused. By that time, the President had already made it clear that he would support Israel in continuing the war if Hamas rejected the proposal.<\/p>\n
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An Unnecessarily Long War<\/strong><\/p>\n During the press conference in Washington, Netanyahu stated that if Hamas rejected the plan, Israel would finish the job on its own. Trump said that Israel would have his \u201cfull support\u201d under such circumstances.<\/p>\n The terrorist group\u2019s quick response to Trump\u2019s ultimatum \u2014 releasing the remaining 20 living hostages on short notice \u2014 shows that the hostages could have been freed and the war ended much earlier if the world had exerted stronger pressure on Hamas.<\/p>\n Instead, the terrorist group was welcomed as freedom fighters and honored guests in Ankara, Moscow, Tehran, Doha, and Beijing, while much of the Western media reported on the subsequent war in Gaza as if Hamas, its death cult and use of human shields, as well as its alliance of terror states and terror groups, did not exist at all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Media Trusts Hamas<\/strong><\/p>\n For two long years, Hamas-controlled authorities have consistently been the main source for international media, while the Middle East\u2019s only democracy has been vilified \u2014 right after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and the bloodiest day in Israel\u2019s modern history.<\/p>\n Several Western countries have also rewarded the terrorist attack two years ago by recognizing Palestine as a state \u2014 even though Gaza and the West Bank do not meet the legal criteria required for statehood, including the existence of \u201ca government that controls the territory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hamas\u2019s rapid concessions to the tough ultimatums issued by the U.S. at the end of September show that the war in Gaza could have been stopped long ago if the international community had immediately applied stronger pressure on Hamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern-israel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5046,"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}