Since the attempted genocide against Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, Israeli leaders, especially Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also known as Bibi, have come under sharp criticism by the liberal media worldwide for the decision to take the fight to the Hamas terrorists.
Perhaps they just expected the Israeli leader to turn the other cheek after 1,200 of his fellow citizens were murdered in cold blood and hundreds were absconded from their families and held as hostages in underground tunnels for years on end.
Hamas, the elected head of the Palestinian people, had declared war on the Jewish state.
It’s only natural that Israel would respond with force to wipe out this savage terrorist group that inflicted this genocide, but also to apply the pressure necessary to bring back the hostages.
President Biden, along with the Democratic Party and their allies in the leftist media, placed tremendous pressure on Israel to act with restraint in its response.
Military operations by Israel were looked at negatively. Biden actually expected that the Hamas terrorists would simply give back the one piece of leverage they held without any threat of force. That was, of course, wishful thinking.
President Trump re-emerged in January 2025 and took the handcuffs off Netanyahu and the Israelis so that they could do what they had to do to decimate the terrorists around him. Numerous attempts to wage peace through negotiations and a return of the hostages were rebuffed by the Palestinians.
It became obvious to Trump and Bibi that the only thing that would work in getting back the hostages was to let the Hamas leaders know that continuing to hold them would force Israel to wipe out every militant in Hamas. If that meant taking Israeli troops and entering into Gaza City, then so be it.
They were criticized by the UN and had antisemites in America, such as Mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani, claiming that they would seek to arrest Netanyahu if he stepped foot on American soil.
But, lo and behold, the combination of military pressure from Netanyahu’s Israeli army, and Trump‘s forging of relationships with our Arab partners, cornered the Hamas leadership into having to agree to release the hostages.
It’s not a new concept. It’s called peace through strength. Some presidents like Reagan and Trump got it. Others, like Biden, simply did not.
It worked, and all those critics who lambasted Netanyahu and Trump over the last several years should eat their words. And we all should thank goodness that our present leaders did not succumb to the lunacy of the street protestors who provided more sympathy to the terrorists than those who were attacked in the October 7, 2023 massacre.