It’s about damned time. According to this reporting from an i24 News reporter, it appears the US and Israel are now moving away from all negotiations with Hamas and are now going to use military force to get all hostages released and end this war in Gaza.

Here’s the reporting from Amichai Stein:

Israeli official following Netanyahu-@SteveWitkoff meeting: An understanding is forming between Israel and the United States that, given Hamas’s intransigence, there is a need to shift from a framework for releasing some of the hostages to a framework for releasing all hostages, disarming Hamas, and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip.

Concurrently, Israel and the U.S. will work to increase humanitarian aid while continuing military operations in Gaza.

Netanyahu always said that the only way to get all the hostages released is with military force and it looks like they are finally back to that single objective. It was absolutely clear from the beginning that Hamas would NEVER release all the hostages and many of us, including myself, said that a long time ago. It’s their only bargaining chip.

The sad thing about this is that it likely means more hostages will die at the hands of Hamas to make this demilitarization as costly as possible. They are just that evil. This is exactly why they need to be eradicated.