Stop Negotiating with Terrorists – Put an End to the Endless Delays
Once again, headlines are filled with empty promises: “Close to a deal,” “Hostages may be released next week,” “Delegation heading to Doha.” We’ve heard it all before. And time after time, these negotiations end in bitter disappointment, dashed hopes, and a strengthened enemy • Full Article
It’s time to state the obvious: negotiating with Hamas is a failed strategy. Worse — it’s dangerous.
For months, the Israeli and American governments have pursued the illusion of diplomacy with a genocidal terrorist organization whose very charter calls for the destruction of Israel. These negotiations have become a cruel psychological game — not only against the hostages still in Gaza, but against their families, and against the entire Israeli public. Every headline promising a “breakthrough” is followed by silence, stalling, or outright rejection. Every delay is another blow to morale — not Hamas’s, but ours.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s theater. And the terrorists are loving it.
Each new round of talks gives Hamas more leverage. Each high-profile negotiation elevates them on the world stage. Each concession emboldens them to demand more, delay longer, and deepen their psychological warfare — because that’s what this is. These are not rational actors; they are sadists who take pride in torture, who celebrate kidnapping and murder. They do not want peace. They want power. And we are giving it to them.
Let’s be clear: no moral country should ever be sitting at the table with child-killers and hostage-takers. There’s a reason the West says “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.” Yet somehow, when it comes to Israel’s enemies, that principle is tossed aside.
The solution is not complicated. In fact, it’s painfully simple:
Stop talking to terrorists.
Not another phone call. Not another plane to Doha or Cairo. No more begging. Instead, the Israeli government should issue a clear and final warning: Every person with ties to terror — from leaders to operatives to local collaborators — will be eliminated. No safe zones, no ceasefire zones, no advance warnings. Gaza will no longer be a haven for evil.
And then, DO IT! Follow through. No more empty threats. No more international theater. No more compromising security for optics.
Only when Hamas sees that the games are over — when they realize that Israel is serious, determined, and no longer willing to be manipulated — will anything change. At that point, and only then, will the tables turn. Then you will see them crawling for a deal. But by then, it won’t be on their terms. It will be on ours.
Israel owes its people — especially the hostages and their families — more than these endless cycles of false hope. We owe them justice. We owe them action. We owe them victory.
And that will only come when we stop negotiating with terror, and start defeating it.
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Bh someone is saying it clear.
In absolute and total agreement with the writer.!