Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax on Thursday that “Hamas understands that there is no way out of this [war with Israel] except their end.”
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the ceasefire will “be terminated and the IDF will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated, if the remaining hostages are not returned." Holt said that President Donald Trump “was very very serious” about the Saturday deadline.
“So one way or another, Hamas is either going to come out and surrender and give us all the hostages. And that is a Saturday deadline, by the way, or or they're going to get to meet members of a very special force that we know from a place that's been renamed Fort Bragg, and it won't go well for them,” Holt said during an appearance on “The Chris Salcedo Show.”
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer joined the conversation and said that rebuilding Gaza appealing to all parties because “commerce is the language of peace.”
“One of the things we can do is help develop that region. That's an amazing area of real estate. That's what Donald Trump has done his entire life, build things. So I think that's why the Arab leaders who were there recognized the potential to remove this permanent grievance, called the Palestinians, and actually do something to enrich the region and all the countries there. This is all very good,” Shaffer said.
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