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2025-07-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Trump: ''Hamas didn't really want to make a deal. I think they want to die''
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Apparently accepting talks impasse, Trump says Israel will have to ‘get rid of’ Hamas
[IsraelTimes] US president says terror group not interested in deal; echoing Witkoff, PM says Jerusalem weighing ‘alternative options’ to free hostages
US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
declared Friday that Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
isn’t interested in reaching a hostage deal and signaled backing for Israel advancing its military operations against the terror group.
"Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die," Trump told news hounds outside the White House a day after the US and Israel announced that they were pulling their respective negotiating teams from Doha, where proximity talks with Hamas had been taking place for nearly three weeks.
Washington and Jerusalem fumed at Hamas over the response it submitted Thursday to the latest proposal for a 60-day Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
truce and hostage release deal. Egypt and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
took a more nuanced approach, while indicating that the Hamas response indeed contained too many requests for changes to the proposal. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
they maintain that the gaps are bridgeable, an Arab diplomat and a source involved in the mediation effort told The Times of Israel on Friday.
Trump painted a far more bleak outlook and appeared to even accept that the US may not be able to secure the release of the remaining 50 hostages — 20 of whom are believed to still be alive.
"I said this was going to happen," Trump told news hounds, claiming to have predicted the current impasse.
"We got a lot of hostages out. But when you get down to the last 10 or 20, I don’t think Hamas is going to make a deal because that means they have no protection. And basically that’s what happened," he said.
"I think what’s going to happen is they’re going to be hunted down," Trump continued. "It [has] gotten to a point where [Israel is] going to have to finish the job."
Israel is "going to have to fight, and going to have to clean it up. You’re gonna have to get rid of [Hamas]," he said, acknowledging that the situation is "sort of disappointing."
’MUSCLE FLEX’
Trump’s comments on Friday indicated that he has all but given up on the negotiations in Doha — which would mark a major shift for the US president, who for months has expressed his desire to quickly end the war and who just a week earlier prematurely announced that 10 hostages would soon be released.
Israel was quickly falling in line on Friday, with Netanyahu’s office issuing a statement that said Jerusalem and Washington were "considering alternative options to bring our hostages home."
The statement echoed one issued a day earlier by US special envoy Steve Witkoff.
But a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel Friday that there are no new ideas for securing the release of the hostages and that the only military strategies that haven’t been pursued would put the captives at risk.
Earlier Friday, the families of several hostages still in Gaza met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
at the White House in order to receive an update regarding the negotiations.
One hostage relative told The Times of Israel that during one of their earlier meetings this week with Trump officials, the families were assured that the decision to withdraw the US negotiating team from Doha was a "muscle flex" tactic aimed at coaxing Hamas to come down from some of its demands, particularly ones regarding the number of Paleostinian security prisoners it wants released in exchange for the 10 living hostages and 18 bodies of slain hostages who would be released in five batches during the two-month ceasefire under discussion.
When the hostage families pressed Trump aides as to why they weren’t promoting a comprehensive deal, as opposed to the staged framework on the table, the US officials insisted that the administration is committed to securing the release of all hostages, the relative said, confirming a Channel 12 report.
STAYING THE COURSE
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
Egypt and Qatar issued a joint statement on Friday asserting that they were continuing their mediation efforts to secure a ceasefire, and explaining that the US and Israel had merely recalled their negotiators "to hold consultations before resuming dialogue." They added that the practice was "normal in the context of these complex negotiations."
The two Arab countries insisted that some progress was made in the last round of negotiations and that they remain committed to securing a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal.
Egyptian media reported earlier Friday that talks would still pick back up next week, and Hamas official Bassem Naim told news hounds the same.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the source involved in mediation efforts and the Arab diplomat denied that hostage negotiations were scheduled to resume next week. The two sources said nothing has been scheduled yet and that Egypt and Qatar were still awaiting directions from Witkoff. 
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