Members of Code Pink, a radical pro-terrorist organization that has been around since the Bush years, confronted Rep. Brian Mast on Tuesday and got a bit more than they bargained for. The group of women approached the congressman inside the Capitol Building with one claiming that Hamas had “agreed to a ceasefire.” She then challenged Mast to pressure Israel to “agree to a ceasefire.”
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For context, Hamas did no such thing. Rather, after Israel finally started its invasion of Rafah, the last stronghold of the terrorist government, Hamas rushed to accept a “deal” that was never even on the table. Not only had Israel never seen the terms, but it only guaranteed the release of 33 hostages dead or alive. In exchange for what would have likely been the bodies of murdered hostages, the war would end and hundreds of Palestinian terrorists would be let out of prison as part of the exchange.
Does that sound like a viable “ceasefire” offer? Leave it to Code Pink to buy the Hamas propaganda hook, line, and sinker, though.
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Mast wasn’t playing around with his response.
CODE PINK: Now that Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire, do you think Israel should agree to a ceasefire?
MAST: I think Israel should go in there and kick the **** out of them. Just absolutely destroy them, their infrastructure, level anything that they’ve touched.
Well, that’s certainly one way to put it. He also happens to be correct. Hamas had months to negotiate a ceasefire. Instead, they not only rejected all offers but refused to even come to the table. Only now that Israel is moving to deliver the final death blow to the terrorists are they suddenly interested in calling a timeout.
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That’s not how war works. The time for talk has passed, and none of this ends until Yahya Sinwar and the rest of Hamas are dead and gone. Israel has already seized the crossing at Rafah, effectively surrounding the last vestige of the terrorists. There is no escape, and next comes the hard work of rooting them out of their tunnel complexes.
Was a ceasefire possible before this? Given Israel has been fishing for a hostage deal for a while, even making ridiculous concessions public, the answer is yes. Hamas didn’t want that, though, because they thought international pressure would keep them afloat in Rafah. That hope is gone and they are flailing. It’s too little, too late. Time for the IDF to finish this.