Op-ed:

A Brief Statement on the Israel/Hamas Three Phase Ceasefire Agreement

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.  

Earlier this week it was reported that Israel and Hamas had reached a ceasefire agreement to end the ongoing 15-month long Israel/Hamas war. Also reported was that Hamas would release 33 Israeli and American hostages in what is “phase one” of a “three phase” agreement. Phase one is to begin this Sunday and last 42 days with three hostages released on the first day, four more on the seventh day, three more every seven days after that, with the last 14 released in the final week of this phase, And this release includes five female Israeli soldiers being exchanged for 50 of the 1,650+ Palestinians...including 30 serving life sentences for terror and murder...being held in Israeli jails.

And phase one encompasses but 12 women and children, men ages 50 and older, two injured Americans, and two French citizens along with the bodies of those who died by Hamas' hand while being held. But remember, 250 hostages were taken on October 7th, and there's still no definitive number of how many of that 250 are still alive. And what should have been a “one-for-one exchange” sees Hamas coming out on top as but three Israeli hostages will be released for 95 Palestinians.

And this same agreement also saw issues regarding who exactly Hamas wanted released from Israeli custody, and also if the Israeli military would remain in the strategic Philadelphi Corridor... Gaza’s border with Egypt. And yes, Israeli will not only remain but will maintain control of said border...the border Hamas used to smuggle Iranian supplied weapons into Gaza which in turn were used to carry out attacks on the Jewish State of Israel.

Simply, I believe this agreement should not have been agreed to. Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to save a nation, and in times of war certain sacrifices must be made to save the multitude over the few, most especially when it involves Iran's proxy army Hamas who has proven time and again that ceasefires are but a “buying time” mechanism to allow for rearming and regrouping. And while I understand the pressure BiBi is under what with the rightful pleas of the hostages' families, the fact remains that this is war...  a war to test if the words “Never Again” truly do mean “Never Again.” Case closed.

Copyright © 2025 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

Op-ed:

Misplaced Anger 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

 

... So with Israel now near, but not yet fully done completing what it calls its “tasks” in southern Gaza, focus as per Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is now shifting to Israel's northern border with Lebanon as daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah...who are also a proxy of Iran...continues to take place. And that now leaves Benjamin Netanyahu alone to make the aforementioned heart wrenching decision regarding any hostages still alive...a decision not uncommon in times of war...as in will Netanyahu be forced to decide to sacrifice the few to save the many…in this case the lives of almost 10 million Israelis vs. maybe less than 75 hostages.

War is rife with examples of those who willingly gave their lives to save others...both World Wars saw many such sacrifices being made both on an individual and on a larger scale... google “war sacrifices” their stories are there. And while those individuals are rightfully honored as heroes, the “Solomon-like” decision that Benjamin Netanyahu now seems to be facing should be heralded and supported not condemned especially by the Israeli people. Why so...because if he makes the wrong decision to put the lives of the few over the lives of the many due to Israeli public or even U.S. pressure, the solemn words “Never Again” could not only lose all meaning, but might well become but a sad epitaph engraved on the Jewish State of Israel's gravestone...Read entire article and see videos here.

Op-ed:

Misplaced Anger 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

 

“We're doing everything we can to get the remainder [out], but Hamas consistently refuses to make a deal.”

- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Hamas executes six hostages

I cannot understand the mindset of those protesting here at home against Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightful retaliatory actions in Gaza after Hamas' barbaric acts of October 7th, nor do I understand those protesting against him in Israel for they should know better than most that if there is one country that can ill afford to bow down to terrorist demands it's the Jewish State of Israel. And while I deeply understand the pain and anguish the families of the hostages must be going through, especially now after Hamas' recent execution of six known to have been alive hostages, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, it seems hard to believe that since the events of what is now known as “Black Saturday,” that here in America antisemitic acts not only have grown in numbers, but have become more violent and dangerous in nature.

And with Kamala Harris recently having alluded to possibly changing America's rightfully long held “all-in support” of Israel stance if she was to become the president...as has her coward of a VP pick Tim Walz... who blatantly ignored a reporter's question regarding the six murdered Israeli hostages...I cannot believe that anyone of the Jewish faith would support let alone vote for such a shameful duo. And those who do have yet to understand that they are silently, and in some cases unknowingly, supporting, condoning, and/or looking away from overt acts of what is “Jew hatred”...aka “antisemitism”... being perpetrated on those who hold their same religious beliefs. Sadly, doing the right thing has now been replaced by politically leftist driven indoctrinated hate...hate being the very thing Democrats have now accepted as their new norm and which they relish in spewing out to their blind following masses. 

And while this manipulation of sorts is going on here at home, in Israel protests continue in what is a truly misguided attempt to bring any remaining, still alive, hostages safely home. And it's sad to see a truth being ignored in that Benjamin Netanyahu is trying hard to rescue as many hostages as he can while at the same time he's trying to save his nation from what many wish to be Israel's ultimate demise. So, in no uncertain terms can I grasp how these protesters still see Netanyahu as the enemy instead of the sum total of the barbarians who initiated what is an all out war against Israel and the Israeli people.

So yes, the six hostages were brutally executed, each at close range by a bullet to the back of their head, but what the Israeli protesters actions are now...and they're doing so probably unknowingly...are actions that do take a page right out of Hamas' own playbook. How so...because by their placing blame on the very man who tried to rescue the hostages...and know the IDF was very close to doing so...instead of on Hamas who actually did commit these newest heinous acts...the Israeli protesters are actually giving Hamas ammunition, if you will, to continue committing these what are inhumane acts. Remember, Hamas is publicly blaming Israel, and especially Netanyahu, for the six hostages deaths which is exactly what the protesters also are now doing which, by the way, does nothing to help secure the release of any others still being held. However, what it does do is help to feed into what has become the controversy surrounding Hamas' newest propaganda ploy relating to the number of Palestinian civilians lost at what they call, “Netanyahu's hands.”

Remember, Hamas cares nothing about their fellow Palestinians...not their lives nor their fate...for if they did please tell me why Hamas was willing to needlessly sacrifice what is now more than 40,000 Palestinian lives and what is basically the total destruction of Gaza itself ? Did Hamas really think Israel would “turn the other cheek” and allow them to go unpunished for the savage and barbaric atrocities they committed on October 7th? I surely think not for all Hamas ever really cared about, and still does, is how many Jews they can kill no matter how many Palestinian lives are lost in doing so. And why so... because unlike Israel and the rest of the civilized world Hamas knows that their now dead terrorist ranks can and will be easily replaced courtesy of the multitude of indoctrinated since birth Palestinian children...children who through no fault of their own are and have always been but future Hamas terrorists in waiting.

Also remember that the so-called Palestinians as a whole do not...in my opinion...deserve anyone's sympathy. Why so...first because Hamas knows well that their war with Israel was never meant, nor designed, to be fought minus “collateral damage” for “collateral damage” itself is what Hamas'  propaganda arm now thrives on. And second it's because not one Palestinian residing in Gaza has yet to speak out against Hamas' “Black Saturday” actions. Also, do not forget that when Hamas operatives returned to Gaza with bloody hostages in hand, they were met in the streets by scores of cheering Palestinians...men, women, and children...who happily condoned what were Hamas' barbaric and savage actions. What a sad commentary regarding what truly lies deep within the hearts of the so-called Palestinian people.

And yet another sad commentary is the fact that the Israel v. Hamas War has now become but a political tool here in our own country...a tool used by the still Biden/Harris administration to not only help in trying to get Obama's anointed puppet Kamala Harris elected in November, but to have the Israel v. Hamas war be over and done with while Joe Biden is still in office. Why so... because if the hoped for end of said war where to happen on Biden's watch the Democrats seem to feel that it might help to temper down the stain of what is Biden's already badly tainted foreign policy presidential legacy...as in remember Afghanistan, Abbey Gate, and the still ongoing nightmare that is Ukraine. And maybe a promised “legacy cleanup” might just have been part of the Obama/Pelosi deal to get Biden to pull out of the presidential race.

So now after the six murdered hostages have been laid to rest in their ancestral homeland, it's sad that Benjamin Netanyahu must still face not only those who blame him for their deaths, but the fact that some recent “supposed” intel alludes that 97 hostages might still be alive and are being held in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Personally I do not believe the number is anywhere near that high nor that any hostages are really in Egypt...I don't think el-SiSi would allow it. But I do understand Netanyahu's reasoning as to why he must not dismiss said intel, and why he believes that the only way to free any who, by some outside chance, might be held there is by Israel maintaining control of the Philadelphi Route, the so-called “security corridor” that runs between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

And why is this “corridor” so important in regards to any ceasefire and/or hostage exchange deal...so important that Hamas will not agree to any such deal unless Israel relinquishes control of said corridor which Israel rightfully refuses to do? First, because if said corridor is in Israeli control Israel would then be able to prevent Hamas from rearming; second because as per Benjamin Netanyahu's wise words, “It prevents Gaza from becoming this Iranian terror enclave again, which can threaten our existence;” and lastly because, and again as per the prime minister, it prevents Hamas' ability, “to smuggle hostages into Egypt, into the Sinai, where they could disappear…then they'll end up in Iran or in Yemen, and they're lost forever.”Lost indeed while experiencing unspeakable horrors before they would be killed I'm sure.

Simply, to Hamas the hostages that are still alive (if there are any)...and even those already confirmed dead...are but tools of propaganda to be used, at will, to not only garner sympathy for Hamas' vile cause...as in Israel's total destruction...but as tools to psychologically incite not only the fire of wrongfully placed revenge in the bellies of terrified hostage families, but to let the world know that Hamas is far from finished with the Jewish State of Israel.

In fact, after American Hersh Goldberg-Polin was laid to rest in Jerusalem, Hamas released an up until then unseen video of all six then still alive hostages confirming their identities before cutting to a still frame threatening to release their “last messages” to their families to add mental anguish to their already overbearing grief. And while in the video below it becomes apparent that the hostages were told what to say, it does not take away from the fact that Hamas never intended to release any of them alive...whether a ceasefire was in place or not.

And this video itself might help one understand why some folks say that Hamas is not unlike the petulance that is the “cockroach”...as in you might be lucky to kill off a few and think you're done with them, but the reality for Israel is that if even one Hamas operative is left alive in Gaza others will soon follow for like the lowly “cockroach”...which has been around unaltered and thriving since “the beginning”...Hamas will survive as long as the “mother roach” that is Iran is also allowed to exist in its current state. Remember, one must never forget who is behind all the blood being shed...Iran... something Netanyahu knows well which, sadly, many Israeli protesters seem to have forgotten.

And as I write this, not only has Hamas' Rafah Brigade now basically been “decimated”...what with at least 2,308 of operatives having been killed by the IDF along with over 8 miles of its tunnels now destroyed...but the proposed ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have fallen apart yet again. And this is due not only to Hamas' outrageous demands, never mind the fact that Hamas does not and never did really want peace with Israel, but also due to Biden's recent phone call to Netanyahu replete with his own list of demands that Netanyahu rightfully deemed unacceptable... demands relating to control of the all-important Philadelphi Corridor. 

So with Israel now near, but not yet fully done completing what it calls its “tasks” in southern Gaza, focus as per Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is now shifting to Israel's northern border with Lebanon as daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah...who are also a proxy of Iran...continues to take place. And that now leaves Benjamin Netanyahu alone to make the aforementioned heart wrenching decision regarding any hostages still alive...a decision not uncommon in times of war...as in will Netanyahu be forced to decide to sacrifice the few to save the many…in this case the lives of almost 10 million Israelis vs. maybe less than 75 hostages.

War is rife with examples of those who willingly gave their lives to save others...both World Wars saw many such sacrifices being made both on an individual and on a larger scale...google “war sacrifices” their stories are there. And while those individuals are rightfully honored as heroes, the “Solomon-like” decision that Benjamin Netanyahu now seems to be facing should be heralded and supported not condemned especially by the Israeli people. Why so...because if he makes the wrong decision to put the lives of the few over the lives of the many due to Israeli public or even U.S. pressure, the solemn words “Never Again” could not only lose all meaning, but might well become but a sad epitaph engraved on the Jewish State of Israel's gravestone. Case closed. 

Copyright © 2024 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

 

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