Guest Contributor The World Held Hostage, Day 300: Countering Kamala’s Condescension, Bibi Bombs Away Bob Maistros
A tragic milestone is reached today: Day 300 of Iran Hostage Crisis II, as reflected on this site.
And developments are moving fast and furious, even if the end of the ordeal has not for five Americans and some 65 other innocent captives still presumed alive.
As the marker approached, dynamic Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an oration for the ages, and took bold, decisive actions that could accelerate a deal to return the women, infants, and men who continue as pawns in Hamas’ cruel machinations.
And dimwitted presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris delivered remarks for the aged (i.e., stepping into the place of her deposed, dementia-ridden boss) that threatened to set the captives’ homecoming back indefinitely.
“The war in Gaza could end tomorrow if Hamas surrenders, disarms, and returns all the hostages,” Bibi boomed during his address before a joint congressional session. “But if they don’t, Israel will fight until we destroy Hamas’ military capabilities and its rule in Gaza and bring all our hostages home.”
Yet why would Hamas’ blood-soaked Caesars wave the white flag and cash in their caches of human poker chips given Harris’ winking assurances in her first appearance as de facto diplomat in chief?
After meeting Netanyahu, whom she had already dissed by skipping his speech – and following a dutiful but disingenuous recitation of the usual homilies about supporting Israel – Ms. Harris laid bare where her real sympathies lie as she embarrassed her guest with a regurgitation of warmed-over Palestinian propaganda:
To wit:
I also expressed with the prime minister my serious concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians. And I made clear my serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there, with over 2 million people facing high levels of food insecurity and half a million people facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.
What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating — the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third, or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent …
It is time for this war to end and end in a way where Israel is secure, all the hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can exercise their right to freedom, dignity, and self-determination …
As I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done.
Seemingly all but assuring that it wouldn’t get done, by incentivizing the terrorist tyrants to hold out till beyond Nov. 5 expectation of continued Kamala condescension to Bibi and kid-glove love to his enemies.
That is, if they live that long.
Just ask Fouad Shukur, a senior commander of Hezbollah, Hamas’ blood brothers and fellow ayatollahs’ tool. Doubtless emboldened by the veepster’s tiptoe through the waffle house two days prior, Shukur apparently masterminded the soccer-field slaughter of 12 Druze children with an Iranian missile – just as he was reportedly behind the murder of 243 American servicemen in Lebanon four decades ago.
Or query Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political head, reportedly the chief negotiator in its cat-and-mouse hostage release bargaining.
Oh, wait. You can’t.
Because, although orders from the Bidenite accommodation corps to avoid a “dramatic escalation” to the soccer-field attack followed Kamala’s amateurish get-this-deal-done demand, Bibi moved decisively – daringly – to get Shukur and Haniyeh done instead.
Shukur via a precision strike in Beirut. And Haniyeh through an eye-popping – and in-Iran’s-eye-poking – bomb plant in Teheran(!), where the Gazan had just attended the swearing-in of the pariah state’s new president.
This after the Israeli military hero and Churchillian war leader had similarly thumbed his nose at administration warnings not to enter Rafah, where the last of the Hamas rats are holed up, out of fear of outsized civilian casualties. Which, Netanyahu claimed in his congressional declamation, never eventuated.
Instead, the Israeli Defense Force’s relentless military pressure, including cutting off supply lines from the nation’s two-faced “peace partners” in Egypt, drove Hamas to the bargaining table.
Through his gutsy displays of Israel’s determination on the battlefield and in its incomparable clandestine operations, Netanyahu has seemingly served notice not only to the ayatollahs and their proxies but also to Condescending Kamala as stand-in for Jolted Joe: he and his people are done with being led by the nose down the primrose path to oblivion for the sake of domestic political pandering.
Bibi will pursue the end of the hostages’ nearly 10-month long captivity not by means of endless, pointless, and fruitless diplomatic runarounds. In which Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s honchos – and their puppet-master Iran – exploit the Jewish people’s reverence of life, and the Biden administration’s epic incompetence, to extort outrageous concessions.
He will continue not just to speak out loudly – as will this site with its continuing toll of the days our countrymen are deprived of freedom. But also to carry, and wield, a big and deathly accurate stick.
Bob Maistros, a regular contributor to Issues & Insights, is a messaging and communications strategist, crisis specialist, and former political speechwriter. He can be reached at bob@rpmexecutive.com.
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