A ceasefire in Israel at this time would send the wrong message to all terrorist organizations. It would be a gift to Hamas and allow this evil entity to regroup, rearm, and re-attack innocent Jewish/Israeli citizens as they did on October the 7th. The world is now asking Israel for a ceasefire instead of putting pressure on Hamas who started this ugly war, broke a long adhered to ceasefire and butchered and tortured innocent civilians. They are the reason that so many innocent Gazan Palestinians are in harm’s way. They continually use their civilians as human shields. They build their infrastructure for terrorism under hospitals, UN schools and Mosques. To this day they are firing rockets at Israel many times daily from crowded neighborhoods, hospitals and places of worship.

All much-needed humanitarian aide would flow if there wasn’t concern that fuel, food and water would just be diverted by Hamas for their terrorist activities and not shared with the general public, as they have done for years. A ceasefire could happen as early as tomorrow if Hamas would release all the remaining hostages, surrender and give up all its arms. No country in the world would agree to a ceasefire with a group that holds babies, women, and the elderly hostage and continues to call for its destruction (from the river to the sea) until that group was destroyed!

Marv Greenberg

Monkton