Trump to Hamas: If Hostages Aren’t Released, ‘There Will Be ALL HELL TO PAY’ There’s a new sheriff in town. Hugh Fitzgerald
The President-elect has sent his message urbi et orbi: Hamas must free all the hostages it holds before Trump takes office on January 20, or THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY. More on his warning can be found here: “Trump warns ‘all hell to pay’ if Gaza hostages not released by Inauguration Day,” by Hannah Sarisohn, Jerusalem Post, December 2, 2024:
President-elect Donald Trump took to his platform Truth Social on Monday afternoon following the IDF’s confirmation that Hamas killed American-Israeli Omer Neutra on October 7 and has held his body hostage since.
Trump did not mention Neutra by name but wrote that “everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all talk and no action!”
Trump continued, saying, “Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity.”
Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the “long and storied History of the United States of America,” Trump wrote.
“RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!” he said.
Former Governor Mike Huckabee, who was nominated as the next US Ambassador in Israel in early November, reiterated Trump’s statement on Tuesday overnight.
“There must be serious consequences for holding any hostage,” emphasized Huckabee, adding, “America needs to exact severe consequences for kidnapping and murdering AMERICAN hostages,” he wrote in a post on X/Twitter….
What must Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and others in Gaza, some of them not members of a group but acting on their own, Gazans who just wanted to enjoy the services of an Israeli slave or sex slave for as long as possible, now be thinking? Trump is scary. He is an unswerving supporter of those Zionists. And he might just do now what he threatens to do, if those hostages are not released by the time he takes office. Remember, he promised to move the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and he did it. He promised to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and he did it. Now he wants those hostages freed before he takes office, or there will be “HELL TO PAY.” What can that “HELL TO PAY” mean? Might he support an Israeli plan to cut Gaza in two, and station IDF troops all long the new east-to-west boundary line? Or might he support an Israeli effort to take over, permanently, a swathe of northern Gaza? There is no telling what Donald Trump might do if those hostages are not released by January 20. There’s a new sheriff in town who means business. Time to hand over those hostages, PDQ.
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