Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The day the 20 living hostages were released, the media told
us that all Israelis were celebrating. But that wasn’t quite the truth. For
many of us, it was more of a collective sigh of relief. The last of the live hostages
had made it out. It had not been at all certain they would, or that they had
even survived. Thank God they were out.
But this peace deal was nothing to celebrate, because it
would not bring peace and would not keep us safe. How could it when in exchange
for those 20 living hostages, tortured and starved for 737 days, we released 1,968
Arab terrorists from our jails, 250 of them serving life sentences for murdering
or planning the murders of Israeli Jews. Only 200 would be expelled, the rest
would be released into the wild.
For our dear 20 hostages, we were releasing murderers back into our cities and
towns to ride on our buses and trains, to work and shop freely alongside
Israelis. At least this time we were getting more bang for our buck. In 2011, Yahya
Sinwar, the eliminated architect of October 7, was released from Israeli
custody along with 1,026 of his fellow terrorists, all for a single Jew, Gilad
Shalit.
This time we “only” had to set 2,000 more monsters free among us for 20 live Jews
and 28 dead.
How could this be right—even celebrated? How many more Sinwars/October 7ths will there be? Why on earth would this bring peace? It is a fact so blatantly obvious: releasing terrorists from Israeli custody never brings peace.
It didn’t this time, either.
Hamas has already broken the truce — attacking Israeli
troops and murdering two IDF soldiers. It broke it earlier by not releasing all
the hostages all at once. Broke it so many ways, so many times. Playing Hamas terrorist chicken, as
always.
But at the point where they attack and murder Jews, it
should have been over. Done.
One would expect an honest US broker at that point, to back
Israel to the hilt and call it all off. All the wonderful peace. But no. Instead
we get Jared Kushner chiding us, “A lot of people are getting a little hysterical
about different incursions. But what we are seeing is that things are going in
accordance with the plan. Both sides are transitioning from two years of very
intense warfare to a peacetime posture.”
Yeah, Jared. Tell that to the families of Yaniv Kula and Itay Yavetz. Do you think they're being a "little hysterical about different incursions?"
Tell us more, oh Jared Kushner who has business dealings with
the Hamas-supporting Qatar. Tell us what you told Lesley Stahl, about how murdering
two of your fellow Yidden qualifies as acting in good faith “as far as we’ve
seen” (emphasis added):
Lesley Stahl: Now, part of the agreement was that, as you had mentioned, Jared, 28 bodies, Israelis were supposed to come out in phase one by now. Do you think that Hamas is breaking the agreement? Is it bad faith? Jared Kushner: So this has been a very intense effort on behalf of our joint center with Israel and with the mediators in order to convey whatever information Israel has on the whereabouts of the bodies to the mediators and to Hamas in order to retrieve them. Lesley Stahl: So you're involved in this part of what's going on right now. Are you trying to reassure the Israelis that Hamas is really looking for the bodies?Jared Kushner: We're just trying to convey information and make sure that everyone knows the expectations and push both sides to be proactive in terms of finding a solution instead of blaming each other for breakdowns.Lesley Stahl: But are you saying publicly right now that Hamas is acting in good faith, seriously looking for the bodies?Jared Kushner: As far as we've seen from what's being conveyed to us from the mediators, they are so far, that could break down at any minute. But right now we have seen them looking to honor their agreement.
The things he said!
It made me want to vomit. Still does.
How could anyone use the word “honor” anywhere near "Hamas?" And what does honor mean to Jared Kushner—that Hamas can kill a couple of Jews and we’ll look the other way, nudge nudge, wink wink?
Jared Kushner asserts a moral equivalence between monsters and (Jewish) victims, characterizing Israel's reaction to the Hamas attack as no different than the attack. It's just two sides "blaming each other." Yet two more young Jewish men now lie cold in their graves.How can we speak of peace when they're killing us. How do we celebrate while our hearts are bleeding.
Jared, somewhere inside your bespoke Savile Row suit I know you remember Beeri, what you saw there, when the air was still thick with the smell of what had happened there.
Why have you chosen not to be, after all, a Jewish hero?
When will you give us a reason to celebrate?
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