October 12 | By John Kass From the moment Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispered into President Donald Trump’s ear that the terrorist HAMAS group had agreed to the president’s demand for a cease fire in Gaza and return of Israeli hostages, the world had changed. On Saturday, Palestinians were trudging north from Egypt along the coast, entering Gaza, looking . Read More
From the moment Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispered into President Donald Trump’s ear that the terrorist HAMAS group had agreed to the president’s demand for a cease fire in Gaza and return of Israeli hostages, the world had changed.
On Saturday, Palestinians were trudging north from Egypt along the coast, entering Gaza, looking among the rubble for their dead, for any scraps of food. The last of the living Israeli hostages–some 20 broken souls taken in the pro-Iranian HAMAS massacre two years ago–were to be released by Monday.
President Trump, the peacemaker who engineered the amazing ceasefire between Israeli and Palestinian forces, was scheduled to go into the danger zone himself and deliver an historic address on Monday to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.
Trump is an exceedingly brave man of immense will. Those of us who cheered him as he stood up in Butler, Pa., blood on his face after that assassin’s bullet, pumping his fist exhorting patriots to “Fight, Fight, Fight,” know that he is brave. He is the leader the world has craved and needed.
But will the ceasefire hold? Who can say?
This blood feud has gone on for several lifetimes and to think that’s over now defies what we’ve learned about the region and the steady stream of tears. Some Trump supporters, including the conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt, are suggesting it is VI Day, for Victory over Iran Day. Iran is a hateful nation that lies and lies. Iran’s tracheary is understood. The only thing we can be sure of is that the Iranian mullahs hate us as much as Israel. Their only truth is that they won’t ever stop trying to destroy us.
I type this while American envoys Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner spoke at a rally in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. Witkoff and Kushner are successful because unlike 50 years of Western diplomacy, they actually listen.
The people were ecstatic with joy about the cease fire, and offered praise for Trump, but I have a question:
WWOD?
What will Obama do?
He’ll be tempted to speak. He has his allies among the leftist Democrats and the media that would shield him from reality if they could. But Trump has engineered things so that Obama’s Iran has few allies left and little room to maneuver.
Former President Barack Obama was America’s pro-Iran president. He raised his messianic arms to carry the Democrat Party toward Iran. He returned billions of seized Iranian funds and Obama tied himself and fellow Democrats to Iran, allowing Iran to develop a nuclear program that threatened the world. He shamefully protected Iran’s nuclear ambitions. And corporate legacy media shamefully protected it all.
But before he offers comments in mitigation of himself and those allied with him, isn’t it time Obama eat some crow?
As Hewitt and others have noted, Trump understood Iran as a malevolent danger not only to Israel but to the world. On Trump’s orders, on Jan. 3, 2020, he had American forces kill Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force and a powerful figure in the Iranian government when it was learned that Soleimani was planning murders of U.
