I must once again emphasize the extraordinary and almost miraculous reality we find ourselves in today.
Regardless of whether Trump’s deal is good or bad, or even whether it comes to fruition, we cannot lose sight of the bigger picture. As a nation that was targeted for annihilation in a coordinated, Iranian-Qatari funded, genocidal attack on October 7th, our very existence today is something to be profoundly grateful for.
First, we can not kid ourselves: Hamas just rejected Trump’s deal, dressed up as a “yes, but,” but in Middle East speak, that’s a hard no.
The ultimatum was simple: Free all the hostages. End the war. No changes to the deal. Total surrender of Hamas. That’s what Trump’s deal is about. That’s what he got the Arab world to sign off on. And Hamas is playing games, again.
But here’s the real story: the only reason we’ve even reached this point, where Hamas and Qatar are being forced to respond to an ultimatum that looks like unconditional surrender, with freeing all of our hostages as step #1, is because Netanyahu stood alone.
Netanyahu stood against the entire senior Israeli security establishment, against the political center-left that led demoralization campaigns together with Israeli mainstream media from day one through today, and against an international diplomatic machine that’s been working overtime to cut this war short and hand Hamas a victory, all by making Israel look like it’s committing blood libelous war crimes.
From the very beginning, October 7th and every day since, the Israeli “deep state” has been trying to do what it always does: “manage” the conflict. Delay. Minimize. Everything but win to protect Israel from future massacres.
For heaven’s sake, some of the same generals and intelligence heads who were responsible for the decades of security policies that brought about the October 7 massacre, had the nerve to lead public campaigns in the media against the military offensives into Gaza.
The Lapid-Gantz-Eisenkot axis, and their allies in the military and intelligence hierarchy, were dead set on pulling the plug in March 2024, before the military offensive in Rafah, and before the military offensive to take the Philadelphi corridor, before we got anywhere near breaking Hamas’ control.
They were ready to end the war without achieving any military accomplishments necessary to protect 10 million Israeli citizens.
And let’s not ignore the irony: Netanyahu didn’t even want the right-wing flank of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir he ended up with in his government.
Netanyahu tried to form a unity government with center-left parties. But their hatred of Netanyahu, led them to boycott joining his government outright. Hence in Hebrew they are called the “only not Bibi” camp.
So who filled the gap to join the Netanyahu government? Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.
The two men the left and media elites love to demonize, their presence in the government instead of center-left parties, is the reason Netanyahu had the strength and political support to push through every sabotage attempt of the deep state establishment, and continue the fight into the final 25% of Gaza City, where Hamas still ruled unchallenged.
That is the breaking point today. That’s what is turning the tide. That’s what got Qatar and other Arab countries to pressure Hamas to accept Trump’s deal. That and the Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar.
And that’s when the real deal emerged: not some fantasy framework cooked up in Doha months ago, but a hard, no-concessions Trump-backed plan: all hostages out, Hamas defeated, no changes. Take it or leave it.
And even today, Hamas is saying no to Trump and trying to stop it.
But this is key: we only got to a position strong enough with this deal to force Hamas and Qatar into saying “yes, but” (which means “no”) because Netanyahu didn’t listen to the establishment leaders in the military/security establishment who caused this mess in the first place.
Netanyahu didn’t break under foreign pressure. He didn’t collapse under the media’s psychological warfare. He didn’t take the easy political off-ramp like the generals-turned-politicians who now pretend they were on board with victory all along.
Netanyahu may have faults, and I’ve called them out before, but when it came to the question of who’s willing to win this war, the answer is crystal clear: Netanyahu has continued the fight to win this war, while the center-left politicians and security officials tried their best throughout the war, to stop it. He endured, while the so-called professionals tried to sabotage the war effort each and every day. He resisted, while the security elite panicked about going on the offense to save our lives.
And now, standing at the edge of possible victory, we can all see it clearly: the center-left political class, backed by a failing security bureaucracy, is not only incapable of preventing the next October 7, they’re the reason the first one happened.
They’ve been proven wrong at every step of this war. They were wrong to oppose a deep invasion in Gaza. Wrong to oppose the military offensive in Rafah. And wrong, dead wrong, to think we could make peace with a genocidal jihadist regime just a few kilometers from our children’s bedrooms.
So yes, God works in strange ways. Netanyahu, backed by ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, who he didn’t even want, ignored the advice of the people everyone said he had to listen to, and because of that, Israel is in the strongest negotiating position it’s been in since October 7, with the Jewish state of Israel being in the strongest geopolitical position in our history, since Biblical times!
The deal may still collapse. Hamas may still run back to their tunnels. But we’ve never been this close. And it didn’t happen because of the leaders of the political left and Israel’s security “professionals.”
It happened in spite of them.
History will not be kind to those deep state officials in politics, the security establishment, the justice system and the mainstream media who tried to the this war and demoralize the nation every step of the way.
History will remember the leader who fought it, Netanyahu, the right-wing government that stood behind him, and the holy IDF soldiers who risked it all to win this war and highlight the power of the nation despite the weakness of the center-left military/security leaders.
We are winning this war and we will win this war! And we will overcome the deep state!!!
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
