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The "Philadelphi Corridor" Is The Key To Gaza...Anyone Who Pressures Israel To Relinquish Their Control Wants Hamas To Survive

The vitriol spewed by the world media on Israel and its legitimate defensive war against Hamas is unsurprising, but the pressure placed on Israel by the West's governments is unfathomable...unless one assumes that they want Israel to lose.

The false equivalence that was created soon after the atrocities of October 7th is typical of the radical left, but it has been embraced by the mainstream media and, sadly, by far too many people in positions of power. In their twisted interpretation, Israel and Hamas are adversaries acting similarly, rather than the reality, which is that Israel is a vibrant, pluralist, democratic country, and Hamas is a kleptocratic Islamic dictatorship predicated on the annihilation of Israel. Hamas is a death cult with a clever media presence, yet no mainstream media are willing to expose them as the savage murderers they were, are, and always will be.

Netanyahu dismisses claims of imminent cease-fire deal

"They don't agree to anything: Not to the Philadelphi Corridor, not to the keys of exchanging hostages for jailed terrorists, not to anything," Netanyahu said, adding that the terrorist group "just want us out of Gaza so they can retake Gaza and do as they vowed to do."

The pompous conceit of the Western powers that THIS TIME will be different is a little difficult to take seriously. Every time the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza have been given autonomy (along with oceans of Western cash), they have promptly bought weapons and redoubled their attempts to kill Israelis in Israel, Jews across the world, and of course any Westerners they could get their hands on. Is there really any hope for Gaza if the template for reconstruction follows the same tired, failed plan from the previous 37 attempts?

Sinwar's secret plan to 'smuggle hostages to Iran'

During a 15-minute press conference for the foreign media in Jerusalem last night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu astounded the audience by claiming that Hamas was planning to smuggle hostages out of Gaza using the much-disputed Philadelphi corridor.

"If we leave the Philadelphi corridor, it will be impossible to prevent Hamas not only from smuggling weapons, but also from smuggling hostages,” he said.

What was the background to this claim? Intelligence sources have told the JC that Sinwar’s plan was to smuggle himself and the remaining Hamas leaders along with Israeli hostages through the Philadelphi corridor to Sinai and from there to Iran.

This was reportedly revealed during the interrogation of a captured senior Hamas official, as well as by information obtained from documents seized on Thursday, August 29, the day the six bodies of the murdered hostages were retrieved.

And the Biden/Harris/Obama junta wants Israel to withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor. It's the equivalent of President Lincoln forcing General Grant to allow a corridor into Vicksburg for resupply.

It's insane. And that is before the possibility of Sinwar moving himself and the remaining hostages to Iran! If that occurs then the possibility of a theater-wide war becomes real. Israel cannot stand by while Iran consolidates its power in Gaza, and the idea of Israeli hostages in Tehran is unacceptable.

All of this can be laid squarely at the feet of Biden/Harris/Obama. Had they simply supported Israel during the initial few weeks after the October 7th Pogrom, Israel could have been far more aggressive in its conduct of its war against Hamas. But their insistence on a carefully titrated and proportionate war against an existential evil limited Israel's options. In retrospect, Netanyahu should have pushed back against American pressure and gone into Gaza as hard and as fast as possible.

Yes, that is Monday-morning quarterbacking, and it would have been a race to win before Biden cut off resupply (which he did anyway). But can anyone argue that the hostages and Israel would be worse off today?

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]