After President Donald Trump’s remarkable achievement with the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the remaining living Israeli hostages, you’d think Democrats might celebrate and maybe even give him some credit for peace.
Not so much.
To be sure, a couple of them did. Yesterday, I noted that Hillary Clinton was among them, saying, “I really commend President Trump and his administration.” Her husband soon joined her. “I’m grateful that a ceasefire has taken hold, that the last 20 living hostages have been freed, and that desperately needed aid has begun to flow into Gaza,” said former President Bill Clinton. “President Trump and his administration, Qatar, and other regional actors deserve great credit for keeping everyone engaged until the agreement was reached.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck “The Shutdown” Schumer also praised the achievement. “Today is a wonderful day,” he said. “I commend the enormous advocacy of the tireless hostage families, President Trump, his administration, and all who helped make this moment happen.”
Former President Barack Obama offered some “both sides” bromides about the end of “two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem “The Sombrero” Jeffries likewise cheered that “all 20 living Israeli hostages are home with their loved ones and that humanitarian assistance is being surged into Gaza for Palestinian civilians.”
I don’t mean to sound callous about the residents of Gaza, but they did “elect” Hamas and cheer the vile massacre perpetrated on October 7. They got what was coming, though it wasn’t anything like a “genocide” or “famine” as the Left falsely claims.
Someone tell that to Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has been calling for a ceasefire since practically the day after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. Yesterday, he issued a statement applauding “the freeing of almost 2,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.” He didn’t mention that the group includes hundreds of terrorists serving life sentences. He then slammed America. “The United States provided most of the weapons used for this horrendous destruction,” Sanders wrote. “The United States spent more than $23 billion in taxpayer dollars to support Netanyahu’s barbaric campaign.”
“This must never happen again,” he said, not of October 7, but of the response to it.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris sat for a book-selling interview with MSNBC’s Eugene Daniels and looked like she was chewing glass when she offered the mildest kind word for Trump’s peace deal. Worse, when Daniels asked her opinion of the fact that “a lot of folks in your party have called what’s happening in Gaza a genocide,” Harris basically agreed that, yes, it was a genocide. “It is a term of law that a court will decide,” she replied. “But I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed, the number of innocent civilians that have been killed, the refusal to give aid and support, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it. Yeah.”
How about being honest about numbers? The casualty figures from Hamas cannot and should not be trusted. “Even if we take the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers at face value,” writes National Review’s Noah Rothman, “that would indicate that the vast majority of the 67,000 deaths over the last two years were legitimate targets.” To be so successful in minimizing civilian casualties is a historic achievement for Israel’s military.
To see so many well-nourished and even overweight Gazans celebrating the ceasefire illustrates that claims of “famine” are also false. It’s hardly a scene of liberation from Auschwitz or Buchenwald.
The media helped perpetuate these falsehoods. For example, veteran CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour opined that the Israeli hostages “have probably been treated better than the average Gazan because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had.”
An emaciated Evyatar David was pictured digging his own grave. I doubt he’d agree with her assessment. Neither would the hostages who were chained, caged, starved, electrocuted, sexually assaulted, or otherwise tortured. The scores who were brutally murdered likewise prove this to be a lie.
Amanpour later expressed “regret” for her “insensitive and wrong” comments.
As of this writing, some of the loudest voices for a ceasefire to save the people of Gaza — Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, collectively known as The Squad — have either been silent or kept perpetuating lies. Omar and Pressley both expressed relief at the release of hostages and condemned the “genocide” supposedly committed by Israel. Tlaib is actually “Palestinian,” and she couldn’t be bothered to issue a statement yet.
“Now that there is [a ceasefire],” marveled Democrat strategist Jon Reinish, “I haven’t heard boo from them. It makes me wonder if it was really about a ceasefire all along.”
Indeed.
By the way, Hamas is currently publicly executing anyone deemed an opponent in Gaza.
And then there’s Team Biden. Joe Biden’s autopen put out a statement saying, “My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home,” and “I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line.”
Likewise, in a long thread on X, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “It’s good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden Administration developed.” Sure thing — the Biden folks just had this one in the top drawer, waiting for the perfect moment that never seemed to arrive.
No, the credit goes to Trump. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, saying, “When others were fearful, you were bold. When others abandoned us, you stood by our side.”
Who could he be thinking of? Whereas Biden, Harris, and the rest could hardly say anything positive about Israel, Trump has unequivocally had its back. If Hamas didn’t agree to his peace efforts, he warned that Israel “would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.” Biden instead alienated the Saudis and emboldened the Iranians. Trump dropped bombs on and isolated the Iranians and repaired the relationship with the Saudis.
In short, Biden dithered. Trump won.
Now, he says, “It’s the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region.” Here’s hoping he’s right, though Middle Eastern history says otherwise.
Here’s also hoping for unity among Israelis and comfort for the families who have a long road of recovery ahead — either from receiving back a tortured loved one or from knowing that they’ll never again hug a husband, wife, brother, sister, or child.
