(OPINION) – Until recently, President Trump was facing two momentous challenges. One was international in scope, while the other was domestic. The international challenge, of course, was ending the two-year war in Gaza that began after Hamas militants murdered 1,200 innocent Israelis and took 250 hostage on October 7th, 2023. The other is a Democrat-initiated government shutdown. (I’ll discuss that in a later article)

On Monday, the Hamas barbarians released twenty living hostages and seven deceased hostages, while Israel released 2,000, including 250 who were serving life sentences. Twenty-one deceased hostages are unaccounted for, and Hamas claims they aren’t sure where the bodies are located because they could be under rubble from Israel’s bombing campaign.

It seems strange that Hamas

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