What would be the point? The American people knew he was a felon when they went to the polls last fall and chose him anyway.

Hamas doesn’t want peace; it wants the extermination of Israel if not all Jews. Israel needed a plan for eradicating Hamas completely, and as you said that also required having a plan for what came next. But any end game there was politically untenable for Netanyahu.

And even if one did, since it’s a federal matter couldn’t Trump just pardon them?

Republicans control the Senate and can confirm any appointee without any Democratic votes. So why would they care about how Democrats feel about these appointees?

Could he also be throwing Trump a bone through the delay? If the first hostages are released Monday night Israel time, they’ll get home just as Trump takes office. That would make for a great visual for him. Think how the Tehran embassy hostages got released just as Reagan took office in 1981.

He’s effective in the short term, which works because politics is a short term game. If there are long term consequences of this deal Trump likely won’t have to worry about them; they’ll be his successor’s problem.

But I was told Trump was the most pro-Israel president ever, that he’d bring Hamas to its knees, that he was the Moshiach. 🤷‍♂️

He also got blamed for inflation (which kept getting worse for a time under Reagan) and not getting the Tehran embassy hostages freed.

I’ve read your threads on this. This looks like a humiliating defeat for Israel. Most of the hostages are already dead, they had to release murderers to get the remaining ones back, and Hamas is free to repeat Oct. 7.

And like in Israel the left in the U.S. doesn’t have a clue politically.

Looks awesome Parry!

Come to think of it, why didn’t Biden put more pressure on Hamas/Qatar? Why did it only put pressure on Israel?

If Biden did such a great job supporting Israel why did Trump gain ground in more observant Jewish communities? Why did Trump get more than 40% of the Jewish vote in New York?

Do you think both sides dragged their feet on Gaza in the hopes the U.S. election went their way and they’d therefore gain the upper hand in negotiations?

While calling Afghanistan part of the "Middle East" is a stretch, I'd say the U.S. withdrawal from there was his biggest failure in the region.

And do you think Netanyahu slow-walked a ceasefire in Lebanon until after the election to help Trump?

What was the alternative - lodge a protest at the UN while Hezbollah blows northern Israel to smithereens?