Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu blasted a report in the New York Times that suggested that Israel wants a truce with Hamas in order to free the hostages and re-equip their fighting force as a war with Hezbollah is on the horizon.

Netanyahu put out a statement saying:

“Anonymous sources briefed The New York Times. They said that Israel will be ready to end the war before achieving all of its goals. I don’t know who those unnamed parties are, but I’m here to make it unequivocally clear – it won’t happen,” Netnayahu said in a video published on X, formerly Twitter.

“We will end the war only after we achieve all of its goals, including the elimination of Hamas and the release of all our hostages. The political echelon defined these goals for the IDF, and the IDF has all the means to achieve them. We don’t give in to defeat either at the New York Times or anywhere else. We are imbued with the spirit of victory,” he concluded.

Netanyahu has been very consistent from the beginning of the war until now about eliminating Hamas. In fact I suspect the war might all be over with now if it weren’t for feckless and weak leaders like Joe Biden putting immense pressure on Netanyahu to push for a ceasefire by withholding weapons from the IDF.