President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the United Nations General Assembly (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Donald Trump has ordered Hamas to release the remaining hostages of their October 7, 2023 attack. Dean Karayanis reports in The New York Sun:
Amid direct negotiations with Hamas, President Trump is giving what he calls a “last warning” to free the remaining hostages from October 7, 2023. The message echoes one from December telling the terrorist group that “there will be all hell to pay” for failing to free the captives by his inauguration on January 20.
“Shalom, Hamas,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday. The Hebrew word means “hello” or “goodbye,” he said. “You can choose,” meaning the terrorists could take it as a greeting or wait for a final farewell.
“Release all of the Hostages now, not later,” Mr. Trump said, “and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you. Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!”
“I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say.” He said he’d “just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed.”
After 9/11, President George W. Bush said he wanted the perpetrator, Osama Bin Laden, “Dead or alive.” Mr. Trump invoked the same gunslinger spirit in his effort to bring the hostages home and Hamas to heel. “This,” he wrote, “is your last warning!”
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