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 Newsmax: Trump Sets Sunday Deadline for Hamas to Accept Deal or Face 'All Hell' President Donald Trump on Friday morning gave Hamas until 6 p.m. Sunday to accept a sweeping U.S.-brokered peace plan with Israel, warning that failure to do so will unleash “all HELL, like no one has ever seen before.” In a searing Truth Social post, Trump wrote that the terror group has long been a “ruthless and violent threat” and the group carried out the Oct. 7 “MASSACRE” in Israel, killing “babies, women, children, old people, and many young men and women, boys and girls, getting ready to celebrate their future lives together.” He declared that more than 25,000 Hamas fighters have already been killed since the attack, during which more than 1,200 people were slaughtered and more than 250 kidnapped to Gaza. There are believed to be 48 hostages still being held in Gaza, only 20 of whom are thought to be alive. The president said most of the remaining terrorists are “surrounded and MILITARILY TR...

 Blaze: The Hamas terror group has agreed to a deal negotiated by President Donald Trump to release all of the remaining hostages in captivity from the heinous attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The president has been trying to secure peace in the Gaza Strip after Israel responded to the attack with military operations intended to target and dispose of Hamas terrorists. On Friday the terror group said it would agree to the deal and signaled that it was ready to discuss the details, according to Reuters. If approved, Hamas will release the hostages who are alive and deliver the remains of those who have died. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his support for the latest deal negotiations. "This can be done the easy way, or it can be done the hard way," Netanyahu said during a joint press conference with Trump at the White House. "But it will be done. We prefer the easy way, but it has to be done." "If Hamas rejects the deal, Bibi, yo...

 Axios: Qatar, Egypt and Turkey are urging Hamas to give a positive response to President Trump's proposal for ending the war in Gaza, according to two sources with knowledge of the talks. Why it matters: The three countries are the mediators with the closest ties to Hamas and primary responsibility for passing messages between the group and Israel and the U.S. Top officials of those countries have met Hamas leaders twice in the last 24 hours. ... If Hamas fails to take up this offer, it will likely be destroyed by Israeli forces.  Hamas has engaged in the mass murder of Israeli civilians, and that is the reason Israel is attacking it. See also: Hamas documents reportedly show deep ties, coordination between Qatar, terror group Papers apparently seized in Gaza show Hamas political chief told Doha its funds were the group’s ‘main artery’ and Sinwar wanted more supportive Qatar to take leading role in mediation

 The Sun: Trump Issues ‘Last Warning’ to Hamas as New Cease-Fire Proposal Said To Include Immediate Release of All Hostages Hamas says it is ready to ‘immediately sit at the negotiating table to discuss the release of all prisoners in exchange for a clear declaration of ending the war.’ Hamas has been getting its butt kicked by the Israelis and would be wise to cut a deal.  It started this war with the mass murder of Israeli civilians and suggested it wanted a genocide of the Jews.  That clearly did not work out for Hamas.

 DC Daily Journal: ... President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post on August 18, declared that the release of approximately 50 hostages still held in Gaza depends on the defeat of Hamas, stating, “We will only see the return of remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be.” The statement aligns with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand military operations in Gaza City, a move that has sparked significant domestic opposition in Israel. ... “We intend to in order to assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free in Gaza, and to pass it to civilian governance that is not Hamas or anyone advocating for the destruction of Israel,” he said. Israel currently controls about 75% of the Gaza Strip, with plans to establish a security perimeter and transfer governance to an Arab-led administration unaffiliated with Hamas or the Palestinian Authority. “We do...

 Politico: ... Still, rooting out Hamas and helping bring the U.S.-designated terrorist group’s hostages home remain key goals for the White House. So too is getting aid flowing to starving Gazans in the war-torn exclave, he told Bartiromo. “That’s what we’re working towards, and we’re going to keep working with our allies in the region to make that happen,” Vance said. Anger at the humanitarian situation in Gaza has surged amid Netanyahu’s plans for a full-scale occupation and the increasingly dire reports of starvation throughout Gaza, which is approximately the size of the city of Philadelphia. Several key MAGA influencers who have long supported Trump are ramping up their attacks on Israel. Even the president has acknowledged “real starvation” in Gaza, while singling out Hamas for stalling an end to the humanitarian crisis by refusing to surrender. Also on Sunday, Netanyahu panned plans by the United Kingdom and France to recognize the state of Palestine, calling the discus...

  Geert Wilders @geertwilderspvv · 4h Just had a conversation by with Israeli PM Bibi @netanyahu and I told him that besides criticism from weak politicians and biased media, there are millions and millions of people in Europe supporting him and his brave actions to free both Israel and Gaza from the terrorists of Hamas. His fight is our fight since we cherish life and freedom while they love death and destruction. #AmIsraelChai Support for a mass murder organization like Hamas makes no sense.  Hamas should meet the same fate as the Nazis.

 Gerard Baker: As Israel faces a blitzkrieg of international condemnation again, mobilized in part by a global press happy to supply the ammunition, it is important to remember one thing: In the war between the Jewish state and its enemies in Gaza, one side is deliberately starving innocent people to the point of emaciation. One side irrevocably denies the right of its adversary to exist. One side would, if it could, conduct a genocide against the other, wiping every last remnant off the face of the planet. That side isn’t Israel. In the past 10 days, two images have told two ostensibly different but paradoxically identical truths about this conflict. On July 25 decent people everywhere were shocked by the image of a desperate Palestinian child, skeletal and frail, cradled by his mother, published , among other places, on the front page of the New York Times . His mother told the paper that her child was born healthy but was now suffering from malnutrition. Muhammed Zakaria al-Muta...

 National Review: ... But it must also be said that Jerusalem is playing to an audience that applies a double standard to Israel. Hamas has lost the war it started on October 7, 2023. Its continued resistance serves only to immiserate the Gazan people. The war would end tomorrow if Hamas surrendered today. But neither the U.N. nor its supporters place any onus on Hamas — the supposed governing authority in Gaza — for its people’s welfare. To hear Israel’s critics tell it, the righteous defensive war imposed on it by Hamas has reached its sell-by date, if only because Hamas has proven that it is willing to sacrifice every last Palestinian to its cause. The terrorist entity has grown bolder as the West tires of Israel’s commitment to its own sovereignty and the longevity of its citizens, even flirting with recognizing a Palestinian state — not as a reward for good governance in the territories but to punish Jerusalem. ... Hamas deserved to lose this war it started with Israel by enga...

  Federalist Wire: ... Following in the footsteps of his father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy—a steadfast supporter of Israel until his assassination during his 1968 presidential campaign—Kennedy Jr. has taken a firm stand. “The genocide charge is a blood libel. Thank you Major Spencer for this withering deconstruction,” he stated. The term “blood libel” historically refers to the false and vicious claim that Jews k*lled non-Jews to use their blood in rituals, a baseless accusation given Jewish dietary laws strictly forbid consuming blood, even in trace amounts like a speck in an egg. Such lies have fueled centuries of violence in Europe, claiming countless Jewish lives. Kennedy praised an essay by John Spencer, a respected expert in war who chairs urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute and hosts the Urban Warfare Project Podcast. Titled “I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza,” Spencer’s piece directly refutes a New York Times op-ed by Brown University professor O...

 DC Daily Journal: ... President Donald Trump voiced strong support for Israel’s military campaign to dismantle Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the terrorist group’s rejection of a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal. Speaking as he left the White House for a trip to Scotland, Trump remarked, “Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die,” adding that Israel should “finish the job” with few hostages remaining after nearly two years of conflict. The war was sparked by Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, which k*lled approximately 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and saw over 250 individuals, including U.S.-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander, taken hostage. Alexander, a New Jersey native serving in the Israeli military, was freed in May through Trump’s diplomatic efforts. The conflict has since claimed over 39,000 Palestinian lives, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, and displaced much of its 2.3 million population, intensifying global scrutin...

 Gatestone Institute: Hamas has been demanding "clear guarantees" that any US-brokered ceasefire deal would ultimately lead to the end of the war in the Gaza Strip, meaning that the Israelis should stop defending themselves against attacks. Many Arabs seem to like starting wars -- such as the war of 1948, when five Arab armies invaded Israel on the day of its independence, and which they now call the nakba (catastrophe) -- but then getting angry when they lose them. "Once again, Hamas's spokesman – Izzat al-Risheq ... [insists] 'they will never surrender.' He speaks from comfort abroad, while Gazans starve in ruins.... This kind of language is only aimed to block any ceasefire that doesn't assure Hamas staying in power. Every time negotiations move forward, Hamas escalates the rhetoric and... prolongs this war." — Hamza Howidy, Gaza-born Palestinian human rights advocate, X, July 9, 2025. The terror groups' leaders.... are convinced that despite ...

 Washington Free Beacon: Hamas Places Bounties on American Aid Workers, Demands UNRWA Returns Under Any Ceasefire Deal: State Dept Cable Hamas 'formally placed bounties' on Americans while demanding 'that any ceasefire deal in Gaza must end GHF’s operations,' cable states Hamas is a terrorist organization that should be destroyed.  The US should support Israel in dealing with these terrorists.  See also: DOJ ‘Thoroughly’ Investigating Hamas Apologist Group Favored By Democrats

 National Review: Major Media Outlets Have Issued Hundreds of Corrections on Gaza Stories. They All Cut in the Same Direction Since the start of the conflict in Gaza, major media outlets have been forced to issue corrections after jumping to report Hamas’s version of events. While the Israel–Hamas War has created a difficult information environment given the dearth of reliable on-the-ground reporting, America’s leading newspapers, broadcasters, and cable news outlets have consistently made errors that cut in the same direction, elevating Hamas’s claims about a given attack over the word of Israel. ... Hamas is an Islamic mass murder organization that has also been caught misleading the media on numerous occasions. 

  Breitbart: Palestinians at an American-backed aid site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) cheered for the U.S. and President Donald Trump on Thursday, as millions of meals were distributed without incident. “America, very good!” one man shouted. Other Palestinians chanted, “Trump! Trump! Trump!”, in unison. Thursday marked the first day that the GHF aid sites were reopened after closing for one day on Wednesday to build up additional security measures. The sites are secured by soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who also secure the corridors that Palestinians use to access the sites. On Sunday, Hamas fired upon Palestinians trying to reach the first GHF site, and falsely claimed that Israel had killed dozens of people. (The story was duly repeated in the Western media, and later retracted by some outlets.) On Tuesday, IDF soldiers half a kilometer from an aid site fired upon a small group of Palestinians who left the corridor and moved toward the soldiers,...

 Matt Margolis: Omer Shem Tov spent 505 days in hell. Hamas kidnapped the 22-year-old Israeli on October 7, 2023, and held him in Gaza for nearly a year and a half, much of it in a pitch-black underground cell where Hamas starved him, isolated him, and forced him to dig tunnels for his captors. But in a new interview with CNN’s Bianna Golodryga, Shem Tov revealed more than just the horrors of his captivity. He gave a rare glimpse into the political calculus of the terrorists who held him and their reaction when Donald Trump returned to power. “At first,” Shem Tov recalled, “they were spitting on me, cursing me. I was starving. They gave me two pieces of pita bread a day. Then it got worse — by the end, I was getting one biscuit and a few sips of salty water. I dropped from 176 pounds to 121.” He went 80 days without a shower. “There were times I thought I was blind,” he said. “It was so dark, I couldn’t see my own hand in front of my face.” But then something changed. And it change...

 Fox News: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard University due to "pro-terrorist conduct" at campus protests, Fox News Digital has learned. It's a severe consequence for what DHS claims is Harvard's refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of student visa holders. "This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem . "It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institution...

  Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane INCREDIBLE: For the second day in a row, massive anti-Hamas protests continue in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Preparations are underway in Gaza for what is expected to be the largest anti-Hamas protest across the entire Strip. DOWN WITH HAMAS! 1:47 PM · May 20, 2025 · 111.6K Views