RUBY CHEN: Trump NSA pick Mike Waltz can help US crush Hamas

As President-elect Donald Trump continues to signifier his cabinet, the selection of Mike Waltz arsenic incoming nationalist information advisor gives me, the begetter of Itay Chen, a U.S. hostage being held successful Gaza by Hamas, a renewed consciousness of hope. Waltz should bring the decisive argumentation changes that we, the families of those abducted by Hamas, person been begging for.

My lad Itay, on with six different U.S. citizens, has been held hostage since Oct. 7, 2023. Negotiations, pressure, and sanctions person truthful acold failed to escaped them. Waltz has an accidental to redefine the U.S. attack and instrumentality a forceful strategy that directly targets the beingness and aboriginal lifeblood of Hamas. With Waltz’s acquisition arsenic a Green Beret, and committedness to U.S. security, helium tin signifier a argumentation that not lone helps Israel dismantle these threats, but besides corrects America’s argumentation successful the Middle East to alteration bid and stableness done strength.

FOUR AMERICAN HOSTAGES REMAIN IN HAMAS CAPTIVITY A YEAR AFTER OCT. 7 MASSACRE

Hagit and her son, Itay Chen (Hagit Chen)

Give Israel a Green Light to Pursue Hamas Leadership Globally

Hamas started this warfare connected Oct. 7 with their murders, rapes, torture and abductions of Israelis. Yet, passim the consequent fighting, galore of those starring the panic group have been surviving overseas comfortably, avoiding the consequences of the conflagration they began. Now that Qatar has yet expelled Hamas leaders from its borders, Israel has a unique accidental to marque them wage for their portion successful the Oct. 7 atrocities. The U.S. should unequivocally enactment Israel’s efforts to physically dismantle Hamas’s leadership – wherever it whitethorn operate.

Intensify Economic Sanctions connected Iran and Its Proxies

Iran’s ongoing fiscal enactment for Hamas – specified arsenic the fake charities acceptable up successful Turkey and different countries – helps substance this conflict, providing incentives for terrorists and the daily operational currency the panic radical needs to survive. By intensifying sanctions connected Iran and establishing much robust frameworks to ace down connected amerciable wealth transfers globally, the U.S. tin chopped disconnected the resources that alteration acts of planetary terror. This will signal worldwide that supporting coercion is not bully concern nether President Trump’s watch. Without fiscal resources, panic cannot thrive.

Push Turkey to Pick a Side: NATO oregon Hamas

Turkey's presumption arsenic a NATO subordinate comes with assurances, privileges and responsibilities. One of those is simply a committedness to bid and the rejection of terror. Turkey’s effect to the Oct. 7 massacre and its continuous enactment of Hamas is contrary to NATO’s values. There is simply a wide axis of evil: On the 1 side, Russia, North Korea, Iran and its Houthi, Hamas, and Hezbollah proxies, and connected the other, the U.S., Israel, the UK, France and different NATO members. The U.S. indispensable fto Turkey cognize that it cannot reap the benefits of being a NATO subordinate portion besides acting contrary to U.S. strategic interests.

Support Israeli Leadership successful Securing Hostage Releases

For the families of Hamas hostages, each time is an eternity. I telephone connected Mike Waltz and the entire incoming medication to redouble its efforts, providing each instrumentality imaginable to secure the merchandise of the hostages: More diplomatic initiatives, enhanced intelligence sharing, U.S. boots connected the ground, and much – each aimed astatine bringing the U.S. hostages home. My household deserves to beryllium full again, each household deserves to beryllium full again, and this support is captious to that mission.

Now, with President Trump, incoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Waltz arsenic nationalist information adviser, we person a unsocial accidental for the merchandise of the U.S. hostages to beryllium a catalyst for a caller epoch for the Middle East. I person religion that President Trump and his enactment squad tin assistance physique a caller Middle East based connected a 2.0 Abraham Accords with Saudi Arabia and different Arab Sunni countries joining the bid pact with Israel. On a idiosyncratic level, my household prays that by Christmas my household volition person its holiday occurrence and beryllium full again and reunited with our son.