‘Let Them Go’: Hamas Is the Reason the Hostages Are Still in Gaza — Not Netanyahu

By Daniel Cohen - https://harbingersdaily.com/let-them-go-hamas-is-the-reason-the-hostages-are-still-in-gaza-not-netanyahu/

(Tel Aviv, Israel) — It’s time to change the conversation surrounding the hostages in Gaza from “Bring Them Home,” which puts all the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to “Let Them Go,” which puts the pressure where it rightly belongs, on Hamas.

Thousands of left-leaning Israeli demonstrators are expected to fill the streets of Tel Aviv again this Sunday to try to pressure the Netanyahu Government to end the war in exchange for the release of the hostages. The problem that much of the world, and the left in Israel, won’t acknowledge is that Israel has already agreed to lopsided hostage ceasefire deal after ceasefire deal—Hamas is refusing peace.

Do Not Be Fooled by Hamas's 'Positive Response'

by Khaled Abu Toameh - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21852/hamas-ceasefire-response

The Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas said earlier this week that it has delivered a "positive response" to mediators on the latest US proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal with Israel. The group's leaders, however, continue to talk about the need to continue the "armed struggle" against Israel. For Hamas, the "armed struggle" means launching more terror attacks against Israel and murdering as many Jews as possible. Hamas leaders, in addition, continue to stress that they refuse to lay down their weapons.

In a recent interview with Hamas's unofficial mouthpiece, the Qatari state-owned television empire Al-Jazeera, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi said:

"Hamas and the Palestinian resistance factions will not lay down their weapons. We will continue to exert pressure on the Zionist enemy through the armed struggle. We met with the Palestinian factions in Cairo and agreed to escalate the confrontation and the struggle. What other choice do we have? Surrender? Gaza will not surrender. The Palestinian resistance sticks to its positions. Resistance is the only way to confront the enemy."

Mardawi does not live in the Gaza Strip. He and most of the Hamas leaders are based in Qatar and Turkey. From there, they continue to issue calls to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to step up the "armed struggle" against Israel.