Donald Trump has threatened to “let all hell break out” if Hamas does not return all the remaining Israeli hostages on Saturday in a potentially game-changing move. The Mail has more.
A Hamas spokesman said there was no place “for the language of threats” – roughly 14 months after the terror group slaughtered more than 1,100 Israelis during the October 7th incursion, while also kidnapping and raping hundreds.
Last night the group said it was indefinitely scrapping a scheduled hostage release, claiming Israel had violated the ceasefire agreement that was agreed last month.
Trump told reporters late on Monday night that while the decision ultimately rests on Israel’s shoulders, “as far as I’m concerned, if all of the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday 12 o’clock – I think it’s an appropriate time – I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out”.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior spokesperson for the terror group known for its tight stranglehold over the Gaza Strip, boldly claimed that Trump’s comments did nothing but make the negotiation for the end of the war harder.
“The language of threats has no value and further complicates matters,” Zuhri remarked.
He added that Trump needed to “remember that there is an agreement that must be respected by both parties and this is the only way to return the prisoners”.
As part of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas promised to release 33 Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and an end to the hostilities.
Three of those hostages were set to be released on Saturday, but Hamas has claimed that Israel has not lived up to its side of the deal, citing recent Israeli shelling and gunfire in Gaza, as well as an insufficient flow of aid.
It added that it had announced the delay five days before the scheduled release to allow time for negotiations.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, however, said any delay in the release of hostages would represent a “complete violation” of the ceasefire agreement, and warned that Israel’s military would assume its “highest level of readiness”, the Washington Post reports.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Benjamin Netanyahu has taken up Trump’s offer to decimate Hamas if it does not release three of the hostages on Saturday and the other nine in the “coming days”. In a statement issued after a meeting with his Security Cabinet, the Israeli Prime Minister said: “If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end, and the IDF (Israeli military) will resume intense fighting until Hamas is decisively defeated.”
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Undoubtedly we are heading for a shitshow under the labour government; however, any thoughts that the way ahead for right of centre voters is for a merger of The Conservatives and Reform is mistaken.
I work in Liverpool and live in Wales – both Labour strongholds. Most people I speak to will never vote for “The Tories” – there is a deep-set hatred of The Conservative Party which will never change for most of them. The only chance is for a new right of centre party with no “Tory Toff” baggage – whether that be Reform or a new movement that emerges over the coming months / years. There is plenty of latent support amongst labour voters for a right wing party that advocates lower taxation, no Net Zero (and woke) nonsense and lower immigration. The Conservative Party will be hated and never forgiven by too many people to be that party.
That’s a good analysis.
However it also seems like there are 6million Tory voters who don’t like conservative policies or think that Farage is too vulgar or something – tribal as the Labour voters you describe but in a different way.
That’s true. With luck, if the right of centre party with the most momentum is Reform, enough of them will hold their nose and vote for them. After all, many must have “held their nose” to have voted Conservative in this election.
Still baffled as to why anyone would have voted Tory this time around
Very true.
Faute de mieux
A lot of this Woke nonsense has changed that, at least a bit. Like a mate from the Valleys who was for Labour in 2020, but would not vote for any of the main parties now. There will be further waking up .
I hope you’re right but I am not holding my breath.
There’ll be many things to keep an eye on coming down the pipeline, and none of them for the betterment of the populace, immigration is just one obvious topic. If you’ve 5mins I’m pretty confident this guy speaks for the vast majority of us. He’s the same age as me and I know exactly where he’s coming from, though I lived in the N. East, but cities back then just didn’t look anything like they do now. And when I visit the UK a couple times/year I see the changes more and more every time. It’s happening gradually but the UK is becoming unrecognisable;
”If there is one video you watch today, this is it. Set against Britain’s breathtaking countryside, legendary @talktv
caller Danny from Epsom laments mass immigration to Britain.
“In less than one man’s lifetime, the UK has completely changed.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1788832937732870656
The trouble is that those who hate the Tories for being toffs also hate Reform for being racists and mysogenists. Neither are true characterisations but they are built into the belief system of the left.
My instinct is to hunker down and try and let it blow over me. Sooner or later their illiberal plans will blow up in their faces as they squabble internally and fail because the Tories haven’t left a magic money tree like they did for Blair.
My MP survived and she is to the right of the Tories, despite not having my vote. So maybe I will give her some active support in the absence of a Reform candidate.
I’m not so sure. I think many lower income working people do see immigration as a big issue – as they’re more likely to be affected by it. The “New Labour” metropolitan middle-class champagne-socialist labour supporters will no doubt be banging the racist drum as a virtue signalling pavlovian response to any attempt at immigration control.
Yes except 5 years ago they had an 80 seat majority. There is one thing you are forgetting in your equation and that is “TIME”. ——-As time ticks by and people see the almighty eco socialist and mass immigration clutter unfold they are very likely to vomit and as has happened all over the EU, common sense suddenly shakes people out of their slumber and they realise that the left are conning them with their equality for all garbage.
100% agree. And it’s when that time comes that they will seek a right of centre party – which the Conservatives haven’t been these past 14 years. I’m not convinced that if the Conservatives had a dramatic shift to the right that they could overcome the challenge of attracting sufficient labour supporters and former (pissed off) conservatives for electoral success, whereas a new right of centre political force could.
Yes equality for all is not compatible with National Sovereignty. All human, all the same means you cannot put the interest in British citizens first.
The Farage brand is strong enough to drag many over to the Tory side if the likes of Hunt/Cameron can be eradicated for the CINO they are.
Agree. Over here in Yorkshire they are still voting against Maggie Thatcher…
Never mind the Free of Speech bit……Labour will be a disaster PERIOD. Labour have just won an election promising “CHANGE”. WTF does that actually mean? —–That “change” is actually a package of draconian Liberal Progressive tyranny. The enforcement of leftist dogma on a largely unsuspecting public who fell for the silly “change” slogan. ——Watch your electric bill skyrocket as Labour pretend to save the planet harder and faster than every other government on earth. Watch your perfectly good car scrapped in the process. Watch smart meters and heat pumps stuffed down your throat. Watch turbines spring up all over the country like magic mushrooms in September. Watch your shoreline turn into an Armada of huge Industrial windmills. Watch your Steak Diane turn into a memory. Watch your ability to speak freely about the tyranny vanish in a clutter of regulation and totalitarian dogma. Watch criminals move in next door because it was society that created them in the first place. In short then watch your freedom and prosperity disappear and guess what ? —–You are getting the government you all deserve, because you thought “Change” meant something
Terrific post v.
I am humbled. ———The next 5 years for you and I is going to feel like we in the “Resistance”. This government must be brought down, before it brings us down.
I’d wager a small percentage wanted ‘change’ for its own sake. The majority wanted it’s corollary, ie no more of the same, so hosed off were they by Sunak and Co and fourteen years of…….(cont’d on p92).
The Tory party of course should get on their hands and knees and beg Farage to be their leader. They won’t of course because the party is utterly corrupted by globalists and the deep state. See Cameron etc loading the bases of the safest seats with the wettest of the wet. There is a 4 letter word beginning with C that correctly describes Cameron
I’m not Trump’s greatest fan but he’s a lot better than the Dems and the RINOs. Because of the US system, an outsider can sort of take over a party, at least as far as the Presidency goes, by appealing to their voter base. Trickier in a completely parliamentary system.
Trump is infinitely preferable to 99% of our politicians, however the bar is only 1cm high.
If Farage gets in bed with the Tories they will bury him, he’s finished.
I’m saying it’s what should happen, if the Tories cared about the country….they don’t.
Yes – Farage would be finished and so would any hope of a resurgent and successful right of centre movement.
Speaking of Deep State Tobias Ellwood of the 77th Brigade comes to mind.
The establishment wants to control the internet, period.
The establishment has historically had control of political discourse. Which stories appear in the newspapers, and which don’t. The internet took that control away. They want it back.
The things we will not be allowed to say are just a symptom. The real problem is that they think they have the right to censor in the first place. Here Anthony Blinken is discussing using AI tools the American State Department is developing to control what he deems to be misinformation. So openly talking about the state censorship via social media platforms that SCOTUS recently ruled permissible.
One of the primary purposes of the Trilaterals is to install puppet politicians that are both amenable to their interests and able to cajole the public. They have played it perfectly. They knew Sunak wouldn’t be around for long but just enough to ensure a smooth and stable transition to Starmer. Same agenda but dissent will obviously be rooted out with more vehemance and force and implied approval. Time to check your privilege. Maybe look in a full length mirror because you will clearly see that a man can have a vagina and titties. We are all black transgender Muslim lesbians now,
Going by your conversation the other day, maybe YOU are a Muslim?