WhatsappIf one really wants to know if the deal is good or bad for Israel, all one has to do is watch the videos of celebration in Gaza today.
In response to the ceasefire announcement, crowds in Gaza are chanting “Khaybar, Khaybar ya Yahud,” the historic Islamic chant urging the massacre of Jews.
That is the true perspective of this deal, our enemies think they won because they are still alive, in Gaza, to murder and kidnap us another day. Any talk of “peace in the Middle East” is total propaganda and misunderstanding of our 1,400+ Islamic jihadist enemy.
For Netanyahu, confronting a morally bankrupt Western world that overlooks the violent jihadist threat and treats it as a partner, while also battling a deeply entrenched security, intelligence, and legal deep state in Israel that punishes our own soldiers instead of our enemies and hinders our ability to defeat them, this is a great deal.
However, in reality this is a horrible deal, as I wrote last week…
Stay with me while I unpack this…
Yes, thank God, if everything goes according to plan, our hostages are finally coming home, bez”h. Every Jewish soul is a world, and there is no joy greater than that. But do not be fooled, this deal does not bring the victory necessary to protect 10 million Israelis properly. This deal delays proper deterrence, empowers our enemy, and hands our Islamonaz*i enemies, funded by Qatar and Iran, breathing room to rearm and strike us again.
And this, sadly, is the best deal Netanyahu could extract under the circumstances.
Hamas is a military arm of Qatar, Turkey, Egypt and Iran. They all were partners in executing the most monstrous crimes imaginable, massacre, rape, torture, beheadings, burning families alive on Oct. 7th, not just Hamas. And instead of being annihilated, regardless of what happens to Hamas terrorists in Gaza, this whole Sunni & Shiite jihadi camp is walking away from this deal with leverage, empowered to attack us another day.
That’s not justice. The only justice against this genocidal enemy, after the horrific atrocities they committed against us, would ensure that no Arab that supports killing Jews remains in Gaza ever again. Justice, is making Gaza Jewish again.
This deal signifies a huge missed opportunity for Israel to end this war properly.
The United States used Qatar, Turkey, Egypt as mediators. They are not neutral. I will keep on repeating this until I’m blue in the face. All three of those countries support the destruction of Israel, and used Hamas as their strike force against Israel. Jews must wake up to this fact. Qatar, Turkey and Egypt are just as evil as Hamas. They are all the enemy.
They pressured Hamas to agree to this deal because of tremendous pressure on them from President Trump. But they are thinking long term. Accepting Trump’s terms to sacrifice Hamas today, but then let’s them regroup, rearm, and prepare for the next onslaught to try to destroy Israel.
This deal is not a pause for healing; it is a strategic armistice for our enemy, that our own Jewish/Israeli leaders are failing to clarify for us, and instead hailing as an accomplishment.
Let’s call it what it is: a Gilad Shalit deal on steroids. Israel then freed over 1,000 terrorists to free one hostage in Gaza, Gilad Shalit. Those terrorists freed in the deal then led the Oct. 7th massacre. Today, Israel will be freeing hundreds of more genocidal terrorists to free our remaining hostages in Gaza today, and all of these terrorists will lead the future attacks against us from Gaza, Judea & Samaria.
An absolute dangerous disgrace.
Hamas should have been pummeled to unconditionally surrender without us releasing any terrorists that will return to killing us.
All these terrorists should have gotten the death penalty, never available to be freed in horrific deals like this. But, again, it’s the leaders of the justice system who stop the implementation of the death penalty against these sub-human terrorists.
Ultimately, this is a deal that frees our remaining captives in Gaza, but empowers our evil enemies to murder and kidnap more Jews in the future. Those who pretend that this weakens our 1,400+ year Islamonaz*i enemy are either deluded or willfully blind to our actual reality.
As opposed to most reporting on this war, this war was NOT JUST about freeing our hostages. It was supposed to bring total victory and end the threat of future Oct. 7th massacres to protect 10 million Israeli citizens moving forward, which it is not doing.
With it all, upon internalizing the challenges of our reality that prevented us from achieving total victory, this deal is ultimately another positive step in the right direction for the Jewish people.
We still have a ways to go, and it is frustrating that it is a slow process, but it is happening. Strengthen your faith in God. We are in a long redemption process. And total victory will come.
Let us now be candid about the failures that led to this deal.
Our security/intelligence leadership and legal establishment failed in properly warning and providing the legal tools to our elected officials to prevent the Oct. 7th slaughter.
To add insult to injury, many of those who should be held accountable have still not been removed two years later; the legal establishment prevented the removal, IDF senior officers clearly linked to the failures of Oct. 7th have been promoted, and many of the IDF investigations to Oct. 7th are being exposed as cover-ups, with the most comprehensive investigation that implicates senior officials, done by Brigadier Commander Oren Solomon, shelved by two consecutive IDF Chiefs of Staffs, instead throwing Solomon out of the army.
This is only the tip of the iceberg of a deep state apparatus still in power, harming our ability to protect ourselves properly and constantly harming Netanyahu and his government’s ability to rule properly and protect us.
Now let’s touch upon the hostage issue. From the moment they were taken, they became strategic tools used by our enemies, and the internal deep state, to stop Israel from achieving true victory.
Hamas knew exactly what they were doing when they kidnapped our people: they created a pressure point, a moral weapon to manipulate Israeli society, and they used the hostages to blackmail us into negotiating with terrorists. Every day the hostages remained in captivity, the pressure on Israel grew to capitulate, not just from Hamas, but from within our own ranks, from the deep state, the anti-Netanyahu political center-left and from the mainstream media and the whole protest movement.
The deep state in Israel, the bureaucracy, the existing senior command of the security/intelligence/legal establishment, instead of prioritizing the total destruction of Hamas, they created public pressure campaigns on the government by trashing Netanyahu and the government as wanting the hostages to die in Gaza.
This deep state actively empowered Hamas to weaponize our hostages and raise the price in freeing them.
The most important achievement of this horrible deal is getting the hostages back to their families and ending their strategic use by Hamas to blackmail us, and stripping the political left of one of their most powerful weapons: manipulating the plight of these hostages to push their anti-Netanyahu agenda to topple the government.
However, the question that now exists is when will our enemies take their next hostages to do this again? As the jihadist Muslim world has just learnt that taking hostages works. It allows them to achieve diplomatic goals. They don’t care that they lost their lives or their communities destroyed. They see that the world supports the “palestinian” cause more than ever, that they succeeded in thousands of terrorists being relessed, and they live to plot to destroy us another day. Until we have leaders who understand our enemy, we will be doomed to continue making the same mistakes.
Call it what it is: this deal resembles an amplified Shalit deal, more hostages freed, yes, but in exchange for a political limbo that sanctifies the future of our Sunni/Shiite jihadi enemies to attack us again from Gaza.
We are accepting arrangements that leave an armed, hostile Arab self-rule in Gaza intact, and we call it a ceasefire.
In reality it is a strategic ceasefire for our enemies behalf, but, it gives us quiet on the Gaza front to free up military and diplomatic resources to return to war with Iran and Hezbollah.
The euphoric festivities in the media and some public officials are premature at best and dangerously blinding at worst. They perpetuate the same irresponsible narrative that distance victory from the people of Israel. The rescue of hostages is a humanitarian necessity, and we are thankful for it, but it cannot become the cover story for strategic defeat.
Three positive notes as we internalize this horrible deal, that we must not lose sight of them:
First, this war has forged a generation of proud Jewish warriors. These young fighters are sick of the old, political left, appeasing and complacent security, intelligence and legal leadership that created the security reality that brought about the Oct. 7th massacre, and tried throughout the war to stop us from winning. This new generation of warriors will not accept a perpetually neutered defense. They carry a new ethos, fierce, uncompromising, and determined to win and properly protect Israel, and that spirit cannot be erased by any diplomatic photo op.
Second, more of Israeli society has woken up to the reality of a destructive deep state operatus that runs Israel from their unelected positions, despite who we elect in elections.
The national awakening is real: people now understand what I long argued, that Israel must change to truly protect itself surrounded by enemies who do not negotiate in good faith. More citizens see the need for structural, moral, and strategic overhaul of the security/intelligence/legal deep state so that our country can survive and thrive in this hostile neighborhood.
Third, Israel hopefully will be holding on to parts of Gaza, but not all of it, not resettling it with Jews, and not ensuring that those Gazans who support killing us live elsewhere.
As I have always said, Netanyahu is like Biblical King Saul, a leader who has protected Israel from many external and internal threats and who can rally us in crisis, but who lacks the faith to go all the way to secure our future once and for all. He can hold, but he cannot finish.
We must say thank you, and be appreciative, to for what Netanyahu has been able to accomplish in this war, and we push forward to be ready for a King David-like leader, with the full faith, to make even harder decisions to properly lead the Jewish people forward to our destiny.
The only true end to this war, the only outcome that guarantees long‑term security, and pushing humanity forward against the global Islamic jihad, is full Israeli control of Gaza, Jewish communities rebuilt there, and implementation of Trump’s emigration plan.
None of this should be a diplomatic exercise to be kicked down the road; it should be implemented now. Instead, the current deal shelves these necessities until the next massacre, at which point we’ll mourn again and scramble to replace the same failed security, intelligence, and legal leadership.
At best, some Gazans will leave Gaza on their own for better lives elsewhere, as Gaza is unlivable at the moment.
Ultimately, we sacrificed two years and hundreds of holy IDF soldiers’ lives. We built a generation ready to fight, and a society finally awake to what survival requires.
Yet we have been forced to hand our enemies the chance to live and to fight us another day. The media celebrates reunions while ignoring the strategic picture. That is unacceptable. That is what my voice at the Pulse of Israel is here to help correct.
If we do not purge the deep state doctrines and personnel that prevented victory, appoint commanders who understand total war for existential survival, and adopt policies that ensure Israel’s permanent hold and safety in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, and our ancestral tribal lands of Dan, Naftali and Menashe, this lull will be the prelude to the next slaughter.
We owe our dead, our soldiers, and the hostages returned to us more than hollow headlines and temporary relief. We owe them the courage to finish the job.
Two years of war and the sacrifice of a generation should not culminate in a treaty that preserves the enemy. The enemy is not Hamas, it is the Islamic jihadi ideology that is supported by Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt, all countries treated as neutral mediators in this “peace” deal.
No, this is not the total victory we hoped for in this round.
However, let’s be clear: Qatar’s partner in this war to destroy Israel, Iran, remains a looming threat.
Iran has rearmed since our 12 day direct confrontation with them in June.
With the Gaza front now cooling down, the Iranian front will inevitably heat up again, along with Hezbollah’s activities in Southern Lebanon.
All this talk of “peace” in the Middle East is nothing but propaganda. We are still fighting a seven-front war against the key players, Iran and Qatar, and there will never be peace in the Middle East until the Jewish people rebuild our Holy Temple and the Arab Muslim world finally recognizes that we, the Jewish people, are here to stay as sovereigns in our land.
Until then, we will remain in a perpetual state of war, sometimes on a low flame and sometimes on a high flame.
Prepare now for the next campaign, because it is coming.
The war is not over. We are still on path for total victory.
Strengthen your faith in God. Together with our holy IDF soldiers, God has our back.
Am Yisrael Chai.
