JNS
The unspoken perils of the hostage release deal
Benjamin Anthony
January 23, 2025

…..Four more women are expected to be released on Saturday, and Israel has but a few days to safeguard them from having to straddle similar, unfathomable danger. The sole partition that stood between the hostages and the throngs of Palestinian-Arabs who had flocked to the site of their convoy to witness their release, was a one-man-deep picket-line of gun-toting, black-and-green clad Hamas terrorists who, if the mob had decided to swarm the hostages, would have been woefully outnumbered and ill-equipped to fend them off, assuming, that is, that they would have wished to do so. Had the crowd ridden a whim to attack, those three hostages, having endured and survived captivity for so very long, may well have met their end in a slaughter by the masses. READ MORE