Why Bibi and Israel Took the Deal and What Happens Now

So, the deal. It's like this. At any given point in the negotiation process, you have to stop and think what's left...what more can you get that you aren't getting now...and is what you are giving up more important than losing what you already have.

Sometimes, to know if a deal is good, you just have to look at who hails it, who condemns it. In a world of shrinking lines, there's more good and evil than ever. What has shrunk in the last nearly 2 years is not the good or the evil, but the gray areas in between.

Once "Good" nations are now siding with evil, and evil nations, well, they're still evil. It's not that there are more evil nations than there were 2 years ago; it's that whole sections of the world have lost their minds, their souls, or maybe just their moral compass.

This deal? It's the best we're going to get. The number of terrorists we have to release isn't great, but it's better than I expected. The real issue is if we will get all the hostages, dead and alive (other than Hadar Goldin...which I hope we will get, but I'm not really sure Hamas even knows where his remains are) is whether the protests will stop. We stand now on the precipice of two things - war and peace, but also integrity versus politics.

If the protesters stop (deal or not), they will have taught the world a lesson on determination and resiliency. They will admit that Bibi agreed to the deal, and Hamas made it fall; or that Israel took the first courageous chance and Hamas was successfully cornered.

But if they don't stop, they will have confirmed the feeling many of us have that this was all politics to them. It was never about the hostages, but rather yet another creative way to bring Bibi down. On that, I hope we get clarity soon. No matter what the outcome of this deal is, it's time for the protesters to stop. For the longest time, many of us have felt they do nothing but strengthen Hamas, that a united Israel might have ended this sooner.

As to the terms of the deal, Israel and the good nations have to understand. There never was a chance for a good deal. No deal will change the agony that we've suffered, return or heal the thousands who have died or been injured. Nothing will change the day of October 7 to anything but the horror that it was.

But this has to end...and now is the only chance we have that doesn't involve flattening everything there is in Gaza without any consideration.

We are done with this war - as a people and as a nation. Done with being hunted in Canada and Australia, England and Ireland and Spain and elsewhere. In amazing numbers, Jews are realizing the home of their fathers most likely will not be the home of their sons; that their mothers' courage in building a home there wasn't enough to keep them safe. Their daughters want better.

If Hamas is stupid enough to turn this deal down, it's time for Israel to show how close victory was at any given moment. From the skies, the seas and land, Hamas will finally understand the power of my people, my country. Hamas is nothing. We could have crushed them in minutes without losing a single soldier.

We chose the moral way and set standards above all other nations. No other nation has ever dropped millions of leaflets, divided an enemy nation into small portions, and directed the enemy's civilians to safety. None have opened humanitarian channels and guarded the other's civilians from their own gunmen wishing to kill them. No other nation has sent in 40 million meals to feed their enemies, knowing that 83% was being stolen by the same monsters who came in to murder, rape, and burn their people, their land.

No nation. Not one.

The Allies bombed 19 hospitals in Dresden without a thought to who or what was there. How many were killed in the Vietnam War (2 million civilians), and another 2-3 million civilians in the Korean War?

Isn't it ironic that Britain's "scorched earth" policy was responsible for the deaths of 40,000 to 50,000 civilians, both Boer and Black African, in the Boer Wars? Most died from starvation or disease in British concentration camps. Wait...you mean Britain didn't feed the civilians of their enemy?

Never mind the hypocrisy. Let us be brutally honest. If Hamas doesn't take this deal, this is their end.

So what of the land of Gaza? If Hamas agrees to leave, Gaza and its people - without Hamas - can indeed finally fulfill the dream of prosperity. If not, Israel should do to Gaza what the Romans did to our land. It should be laid to ruin to the point that it will be uninhabitable for 2,000 years.

If the hostages do not come home now, they never will. And we will have to live with that. Enough soldiers have lost their lives. Enough parents and widows and orphans have been shattered by this horrible. On this Trump and Bibi are right. Either way, the war ends now.

But what of the protesters? I hope they will accept that nothing more could have been done, nothing more will be done. It's time for the protesters to stop to, to stand WITH Israel and against Hamas.

There are no good deals, here. There never was a possibility of one after the world allowed October 8th to pass without massive outrage. There is only this deal. There is only now. The war ends with Hamas agreeing, or it ends 24 hours later. 23 hours to tell the civilians to get the hell out of the way - and one hour to flatten all that remains. No more humanitarian aid. The Gazans have one choice - leave and get airlifted out, or stay and then like Dresden and all the Allies-Nazi battle, we fight to win.

They can leave to Egypt, to Sweden, to Ireland and Spain and France, and Canada. Out...with a one-way ticket and all they can carry...like how 900,000 Jews were sent out of all the Arab lands, the way the Jews left Poland and Hungary, Germany and France.

It's time for Israel to heal, time to pull into ourselves and take care of our children, time to hug our grandchildren. Time to hold our spouses, relax with our neighbors. It's time to remember that even in the darkest days, there are blessings.

We are home. We are in our land as God promised. They could have lived in paradise with the warm sun and sand. They chose the hell of their world and so there they can remain...or from there, they can leave never to return...not for 2,000 years...and maybe not even then.

Bibi took the deal. Now Hamas decides how much longer they get to breathe...and where.