President Donald Trump has demonstrated himself to be a truly great peacemaker in multiple conflicts throughout the world. But his statement to the Israeli Knesset that “This was not only the end of the war, but of the age of terrorism and of the beginning of the age of peace and of God.” is wishful thinking and far from being true… yet. Hamas was and is the modern incarnation of Amalek, and must ultimately be not only defeated, but destroyed; and while we need to be grateful for the return of the 20 hostages (in exchange for the release of almost 2,000 mass murderers, criminals, and terrorists), Trump's words are ambitious and hopeful, but not yet accurate.

Hamas has already started back down its path of terror and death within hours of the hostages' release. Seven thousand Hamas militants were called up from their homes; Hamas has now attacked clans that were trying to save Gaza by going against Hamas, and public executions have started up again since Sunday night. (It is important to realize that, supposedly, no public execution can take place without the express approval of Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority.) These executions were public in front of cheering crowds, some of whom filmed the debacle and have posted images on social media sites of these executions. 

Hamas has additionally already broken other parts of the peace deal by not returning the bodies of the 28 victims as promised. Only four have been returned, and while Hamas stated that there were 7-14 bodies that had not been located, the question arises about the others. Where are the other 10-17 bodies that they already admitted knowing about? The reality is that Hamas has probably not released these bodies as they don't want to show how they raped, tortured, and mutilated the bodies (á la the Bibas family), and that Hamas is attempting to bury the bodies in rubble to hide their evil.