I honestly do not have an answer to this question in terms of dollars, but I do in retribution.
Iran-backed Hamas executed 23-year-old American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who had dual American-Israeli citizenship, sometime either on August 28 or 29. The Israel Defense Forces or IDF found his corpse along with five other executed hostages in a dark damp terror-tunnel underneath Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the porous pro-Hamas Egyptian border (Philadelphi Corridor) on August 30.
Hamas executed all five young men and one woman in their 20s and 30s with a single bullet to the back of the head. The Islamic Nazis perfectly emulated the evil Nazi German Waffen SS when they executed these six civilians, who had been held as hostages since October 7, 2023.
I personally do not think that Joe Biden is going to retaliate before the presidential election on November 5 for Goldberg-Polin’s cold blooded execution. That is because he knows that Vice President Kamala Harris desperately and disgracefully needs the 100,000 plus pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah voters in the battleground state of Michigan and upper Midwest.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong.
However, retaliating after November 5 may be entirely too late. I honestly do not think that Biden has the patriotic backbone or cognitive ability to seek true vengeance for Goldberg-Polin’s execution before the upcoming presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025. Plus, this would also be both worrisome and wishful thinking after Biden’s debacle as a feeble and feckless commander-in-chief in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong.
It is abundantly clear that the great Satan or fundamentalist Shite Iran funds and supports the two junior Satans or Hamas and Hezbollah. Instead of seeking a meaningless ceasefire with Hamas intact for the highly dubious release of the remaining 101 hostages, both the IDF and U.S. Air Force predator drones need to remove the head of the poisonous snake.
If they do not, I predict that Iran-backed Hamas will be releasing a lot more corpses in the future than live human beings. Then if there is a foolhardy negotiated ceasefire Hamas could be allowed to regroup and reconstitute while thriving inside the Gaza Strip or elsewhere in the Middle East for a future fight in the next five to fifteen years.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong
The only way to eradicate Iran-backed Hamas is to destroy their funding, which allows them to purchase rockets, build tunnels and attack Israel. The rest of the Palestinian people be damned.
When was the last time Gaza Strip civilians were allowed to use a Hamas tunnel or bomb shelter during an Israeli attack? The answer is next to zero.
Plus, Hamas deliberately never built any bomb shelters for their civilians so that they could grossly inflate the death toll of their own civilian population in their never-ending propaganda war against Israel. Nazi German Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), would have been proud of their masterful and mendacious “achievements” in worldwide public relations.
The best way to destroy Hamas’ funding is to destroy the oil refineries on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, which export 90% of Iran’s oil, and is the country’s main source of revenue along with any other major military or money-making assets.
Once Iran, which no longer has the political support of the majority of its people, feels the tremendous financial pain and burden of backing Hamas, then I think that both Iran and Hamas will be much more agreeable to releasing the remaining hostages alive.
Otherwise, the remaining hostages could be increasingly executed one by one because Hamas will be desperate to survive, and have very little to negotiate with in their phony “peace talks” or “truce” with Israel.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong.
– Robert L. Maronic