With diplomacy looking likely to fail in Gaza, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt and retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer told Newsmax it’s time for a military solution to end the long-running war between Israel and Hamas.
“When you saw Ambassador [Steve] Witkoff pull away, that really is the green light from President [Donald] Trump saying, ‘Look, I have done everything I can diplomatically to try to off-ramp this and get the hostages home,'” Holt said Monday on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “I’m certain that they’ve consulted with the Arab states, Qatar and other players around the region like Turkey, to say, ‘Look, we’ve tried all these in-good-faith ways with the terrorist organization, and it got to the place we told you it would get to.’
“And so now, the hunt is on, tactically, for those on the ground who are Hamas. But it’s not going to stop there – it’s going to go right on to the leaders. Those billionaires from Hamas who are sitting on their yachts going, ‘Wow, how’s the war going today and the misery on the ground in Gaza?’ So, it’s now going to be done a different way, and it’s going to be quite military, and hopefully, it’s swift and it minimizes suffering, and we can get some hostages back in the process.”
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