This could be over yesterday if Hamas surrendered and released the hostages and bodies.

Yes.  However Hamas should not and cannot be trusted.

Hamas embeds themselves in the civilian population to use them as human shields.  To kill Hamas, you must have a high tolerance for civilian casualties.

Are you saying the IDF -- the most moral, best trained and best equipped military force on the planet hasn't --- in all these decades --- figured out how to identify, target and kill militants and avoid civilians?

@DefiantMassRINO

LOL! Are you kidding me @DB this guy is either a teen with a computer and/or a big time TROLL.

I am an independent conservative. Sorry if I don't panic over all the rw doom and gloom and misinformation spread on every internet site.

I remember listening to Rush early 90's and all the doom and gloom about Clinton-going to turn the country communist, create another depression on an on. The 90's was incredible for both individuals and companies and some of the best economic times in out nations history.

Trump not once but twice warned under biden the stock market would collapse. It was at record levels not once but twice and is hovering around the top right now.
Trump said  biden would destroy the economy. In 2023 a record amount of  new business were started. the greatest amount in our nations history.  5.5 million. A record amount of countries are investing in the US right now. Yes we have some challenges, inflation, housing shortages etc  but they will not last forever,

Record oil and gas production but wait I thought biden was going to kill the oil and gas sector. Oil co's making record profits.  I wish biden would put his boot on my companies neck.

Forbes came out today and said the bidens 44% tax has all kinds of asterisks, caveats and loopholes to enable people to get out of paying it. Very few people will pay it probably less than 1%. It starts at 1 million dollars or more of IRS take home pay but also investment account limits.


Buffet, Gates, Musk and many others have said the billionaire class needs to pay more taxes. These people are smart. They know if the class inequality continues to get worse they might end up on a lampost.

David Cameron urges Hamas to agree to 40-day Gaza ceasefire deal
The Guardian/UK, Apr 29, 2024

David Cameron has urged Hamas to agree to a deal for a sustained 40-day ceasefire in Gaza and the release of potentially thousands of hostages and prisoners.

The foreign secretary also challenged Arab states to accept that the Hamas military leadership responsible for the attack on 7 October must leave Gaza.

Speaking at a World Economic Forum event in Riyadh, he echoed the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, saying: “I hope Hamas do take this deal and, frankly, all the pressure in the world and all the eyes in the world should be on them today saying ‘take that deal’, accept the generosity of the offer of a ceasefire that has been negotiated with Israel.”

He added that for a “political horizon for a two-state solution”, with an independent Palestine co-existing with Israel, the “people responsible for October 7, the Hamas leadership, would have to leave Gaza and you’ve got to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza”.

By contrast, three Arab foreign ministers speaking at the same forum presented Hamas as an idea born out of a legitimate struggle for a Palestinian state, but suggested the group’s influence would fade if a path to the establishment of that state was set out.

The Saudi foreign minister, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, also insisted there would be no normalisation of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia unless there was “a credible and irreversible path to a Palestinian state”.

Cameron was in Riyadh to hold talks with both western and Arab leaders on the progress of the hostage talks, and an as yet unpublished Arab plan for the administration of Gaza and the West Bank if a ceasefire is agreed. He said: “Hamas was an extremist organisation that believes in a very extremist interpretation of Islam and a particularly violent one as well.”

Cameron said peace and stability in the Middle East was unobtainable “unless you deal with the question of the future for the Palestinian people”, but added: “I don’t think we should be naive and think that all the problems will be solved if that were to happen.”


More:  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/david-cameron-urges-hamas-to-agree-to-40-day-gaza-ceasefire-deal