(Tel Aviv, Israel) — It’s time to change the conversation surrounding the hostages in Gaza from “Bring Them Home,” which puts all the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to “Let Them Go,” which puts the pressure where it rightly belongs, on Hamas.
Thousands of left-leaning Israeli demonstrators are expected to fill the streets of Tel Aviv again this Sunday to try to pressure the Netanyahu Government to end the war in exchange for the release of the hostages. The problem that much of the world, and the left in Israel, won’t acknowledge is that Israel has already agreed to lopsided hostage ceasefire deal after ceasefire deal—Hamas is refusing peace.
“The truth is that Hamas still has thousands of armed terrorists in Gaza,” Netanyahu stated before the international press earlier this month. “It vows to repeat the savagery of the October 7th massacre, and to do so again and again and again. It openly professes its goal to destroy the state of Israel. It subjugates Gazans. It steals their food. It shoots them when they try to move to safe zones.”
Earlier this month, Israel’s security cabinet voted to capture Gaza to fully root out the terrorists, which risks the lives of the 50 hostages remaining in captivity. President Trump posted on Truth Social Monday, saying, “We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be.”
He went on to say, “Play to WIN, or don’t play at all!”
Right now, the IDF is planning to set up field hospitals around Gaza City in preparation for what could be a bloody battle. But it’s not just the war on the ground Israel is fighting; it’s a war raging with a dishonest media. This week, Israel corrected a BBC story falsely reporting that a 20-year-old woman evacuated to Italy from Gaza died of “malnutrition.” In reality, Marah Zahri had an aggressive form of leukemia, and it was Israel that helped coordinate her evacuation from Gaza to receive medical care.
This is just the latest example of how the legacy media chooses to believe Hamas’s propaganda—and that is why “Bring Them Home,” which places the responsibility on the Israeli government, is incorrect. “Let Them Go” places the blame exactly where it belongs, on the terrorists.
When someone is kidnapped, we don’t blame the police for not finding them fast enough. We blame the kidnappers. When someone’s taken hostage, don’t blame the government. Blame the hostage takers. Hamas is the reason the hostages are still in Gaza. Hamas is the reason Gaza is a war zone. Hamas is the reason the people of Gaza are suffering. Not Israel, not Netanyahu—Hamas.
Place the blame where it belongs, on the radical Islamic terrorists who started this war and refuse to end it.
Daniel Cohen is an award-winning anchor, the Israel Correspondent and News Director of the Real Life Network, and a Contributor to Harbinger’s Daily.
Editor’s Note: ‘Inverted Moral Compass’
Thomas Fretwell, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Hastings and Founder of the Ezra Foundation, recently criticized the world’s “inverted moral compass” when it comes to the nation of Israel.
“We are living in what can only be described as biblical times,” he wrote. “Much like the days of ancient Israel, when the prophet Isaiah lamented that people would “call evil good and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20), today’s moral compass appears hopelessly inverted.”
Fretwell called on the “self-proclaimed activists and moral crusaders” to familiarise themselves with Hamas’s “hours of footage documenting the atrocities of October 7th.”
“This chilling footage reveals murder, death, rape, and the systematic slaughter of innocent children and entire families,” he emphasized. “It also showcases the support from the populous as bodies were driven back into Gaza to the delight of cheering crowds.”
“The global community should be recoiling in horror. Instead, many seem eager to excuse or even endorse these heinous acts under the guise of political resistance,” Fretwell highlighted. “May those who value truth and righteousness stand firm, unyielding in the face of the world’s moral collapse, offering Christ as the only hope in the face of such darkness.”
