There’s an old joke about a guy who died and went to Hell. He finds himself standing in a big room that’s filled with liquid sewage up to his neck, and he’s holding a cup of coffee up to his mouth. Around him are countless others, also with their cups of coffee, and he thinks to himself, “If this is Hell, it’s not bad at all”. Then he hears a deep, rumbling voice and looks up to see a huge devil who shouts at them, “Coffee break is over. All of you, BACK ON YOUR HEADS.”
The Israeli hostages that have been released by the terrorists are telling their stories, and they’re not good. Many were kept in cages, none of them were fed much at all, they all lost a lot of weight, many of the children, maybe all of them since no exact numbers are released, are being kept in hospitals, they’re all terribly traumatized, they were forced to watch videos of the slaughter of their friends and family, and they were deliberately and purposely terrorized from the very beginning of their abductions to the very last moment of release.
During this past week of their imprisonment the small amount of food they got became less and less. They were fed almost nothing, they were starving.
It is clear that under these conditions, those still held can’t last much longer. This and the truce breach this morning by Hamas attacking some IDF soldiers had to have made the truce more fragile, and one more Hamas attack could end it and the fighting renew. Another 10 or 20 hostages may be released, the Israelis may be able to keep this going for today and tomorrow, but that may be it. Then the Muslim terrorists’ coffee break will be over and they’ll be back in deep shit.
Now I understand why this truce was allowed at all when it seemed very foolish to stop and give Hamas the chance to regroup. Because Israel’s leaders know that this is the only chance to get any of them back while they’re alive and the people deserve whatever they can gain back from this assault before time runs out for them. They understand the deeply sick depravity of their enemy. I didn’t, I do now.