Netanyahu Urges ‘Total Defeat’ of Hamas to Free Remaining Hostages

Peloni:  The words which should be used is “Unconditional Surrender”, and this policy should not be watered down with calls for negotiations.

With ceasefire talks at a standstill, Israel prepares to escalate military action in pursuit of decisive victory.

Israfan | August 4, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now directing the Israeli military to intensify its campaign in Gaza, shifting focus toward achieving a decisive military victory over Hamas as the path to securing the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. The move comes after ceasefire talks broke down and hopes for a negotiated solution dwindled.

According to a senior Israeli source close to the prime minister, Netanyahu no longer believes Hamas is negotiating in good faith. “He is pushing for the release of hostages through decisive military victory,” the source said, adding that Israel is coordinating closely with the Trump administration, which has supported a full-scale deal to return all captives living and deceased.

The plan includes expanding IDF operations while increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid to areas outside Hamas control. This dual-track approach aims to further isolate the terror organization, weaken its hold on the civilian population, and apply maximum pressure for the hostages’ release.

The decision follows Netanyahu’s scathing criticism of Hamas in a televised address, where he denounced the group for starving Israeli hostages and weaponizing their suffering in propaganda. It also comes days after heartbreaking videos surfaced of captives in deteriorating health, prompting nationwide anguish and international outcry.

Meanwhile, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff offered a more optimistic tone during remarks to families gathered at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. “A majority of Israelis want the hostages at home, and a majority of Gaza’s public wants the return of hostages because they want the rehabilitation of the Strip,” Witkoff said, assuring them that “the plan is not to expand the war, but to end it.”

Yet Netanyahu appears convinced that only through Hamas’s collapse can true peace and justice be achieved. His government’s current strategy is one of sustained pressure militarily, diplomatically, and strategically.

As of now, around 50 hostages remain in Gaza. With negotiations stalled and global patience thinning, Israel is prepared to act decisively to bring its people home and dismantle the terror machine that holds them captive.

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    Israpundit calls itself Zionist but what kind

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  2. Sebastien Zorn

    Netanyahu needed to have either resigned or forced to on the day after October 7

    Why? Because he was the elected Prime minister and he was fully responsible for exactly the security of the people he served.

    He was responsible for the continued EXISTENCE of the judiciary.

    He should have been tried for THAT

    The judiciary are arguably guilty as son for treason

    Yet with Zorn and Peloni basically how they lead it is all Bravo Bibi

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  4. About time. This should have been done on Oct. 8, correction, Oct. 6. Bravo, Bibi, just the same. Incredible that the new head of the army is only grudgingly going along with it.

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  5. The total responsibility is on the Israeli leadership which is the Netanyahu coalition government. There is talk in this article about the Judiciary and the army bosses. But that is nothing but a smokescreen. The responsibility for the breakdown in October 7 ending in massacre and hostages lies with the Netanyahu clique, and israpundit top dogs are in the same clique.

    On the heads of Netanyahu and on the heads of the israpundit clique, lies all of the responsibility. And on nowhere else because only they are in the position of leadership.

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  6. “And yet their policies were total failures, and gave rise to the very terror states and military threats that led to the Oct. 7th tragedy, on all fronts.”

    Were these “deliberate failures” or “natural human failures”?

    This, of course, should be seriously investigated once Israel has cleaned up.

  7. Avi Abelow on FB:

    AMAZING NEWS. DANGEROUS “EXPERTS”

    Breaking: Netanyahu Announces Plan to Fully Conquer Gaza to Eliminate Hamas, Protect Israelis, and Rescue Remaining Hostages

    As Israel prepares for a decisive strategy, it’s crucial to recognize the deep internal challenges Netanyahu has faced for years, from entrenched deep state elements within the security, legal, and media establishments that have complicated the nation’s war effort…

    Yesterday, Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio), a government-funded media outlet operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense, posted a professionally produced video to its official X account. In it, a chorus of retired generals and intelligence chiefs called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, claiming the war is “no longer just” and is “leading Israel to lose its identity.”

    The video, emotionally manipulative, political to its core, and clearly coordinated, has already amassed over 200,000 views, more than 60 times the reach of an average Galei Tzahal post. But the real issue is not the views. It’s the machine behind the message.

    This is not about free speech. This is about a deep state, an entrenched, unelected elite, leveraging the credibility of their defense experience to override the will of the electorate and shape national policy instead of the government, voted in by the people.

    The very same figures now demanding Israel stop the war are the ones who led the country into its most dangerous strategic delusions. These are the champions of the Oslo peace process, the architects of the unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon, and the cheerleaders of the Gaza disengagement, always telling the public how they would bring peace and be help to defend Israel better.

    And yet their policies were total failures, and gave rise to the very terror states and military threats that led to the Oct. 7th tragedy, on all fronts.

    Now, they return to the public, not humbled, but emboldened. On the heels of their former senior security roles, they once again are urging defeatist policies that in essence represent surrender, this time cloaked in the language of identity and morality.

    But the problem runs even deeper.

    Even right-wing governments, elected with clear public mandates, find themselves powerless to remove or reform these figures once they are embedded in the system. The legal deep state establishment protects them. The media amplifies them. The bureaucratic elite shields them. And when political leaders try to push back, they find themselves undermined or worse.

    Take Shin Bet director Ronen Bar, who admitted personal responsibility for the catastrophic October 7th intelligence failure. Not only did Bar fail to prevent the Hamas attack, he also failed to update the Prime Minister or government with accurate assessments leading as it was happening all night. In any other country, his resignation or dismissal would have been immediate. Yet Bar remained in place until a few months ago, untouchable, safeguarded by the legal system and immune to the very accountability his position demands.

    And then there’s current IDF Chief of Staff Zamir. Before his appointment, Zamir was vocal in advocating a decisive, victorious strategy for Gaza. But once he assumed the role, his tone shifted entirely. The plan he once supported was buried. Instead, he aligned himself with the same entrenched mindset of senior security officers that has consistently resisted decisive military action. What changed? Not the strategic reality, but the institutional pressure of the deep state.

    And what of the Army Radio station itself?

    Every time a right-wing defense minister proposes privatizing Galei Tzahal, to end the misuse of public funds for broadcasting demoralizing, partisan messages against our own army, the initiative mysteriously dies. Again and again. Proposals are drafted, committees are formed, statements are made, and then silence. As if an invisible hand ensures that any serious reform attempt vanishes before it sees daylight, and the abuse of tax payer funds supporting an army radio station continues to demoralize a nation and the soldiers in the army!

    What exactly are these ministers afraid of? What power is strong enough to silence government after government?

    It is this: the fear of crossing an entrenched elite that abuses its legal positions, that punishes disobedience and rewards conformity, a deep state that knows how to protect its own.

    This isn’t how a democracy should function.

    Israel’s elected leaders must be able to implement the policies they were chosen to enact, not constantly battle invisible vetoes from unelected security and legal figures acting with the support of the mainstream media to brainwash the public to support their actions.

    Galei Tzahal radio station must be defunded. A military-run radio station that openly undermines the IDF’s operational legitimacy during war is not a public service. It is a strategic liability.

    And it is time we name it for what it is.

    Ultimately, behind the war in Gaza lies a deeper battle: the stranglehold of the deep state over Israel’s institutions — a force that defies the will of the people.

    The government faces an uphill struggle not only against external enemies, but also against internal power brokers. Every attempt to win the war decisively or reform the system is blocked by a legal establishment that protects the deep state and obstructs any decision or appointment that might weaken its grip or empower truly independent leadership.

    This war has revealed more than Hamas tunnels and Iranian proxies, it has exposed something much closer to home: the unelected power structures that hold sway over Israel’s media, military, and legal institutions.

    Time and again, the will of the people is overridden by a cadre of elites who operate without accountability. They failed in Oslo. They failed in Lebanon. They failed in Gaza. They failed on October 7th. And yet, they still sit at the top, directing the narrative, paralyzing change, and suppressing any challenge by the elected government to their control.

    But something is shifting. This war has awakened a new clarity among Israelis. More and more are beginning to see that the greatest obstacle to victory and to true national renewal, is not only external enemies, but internal guardians of a broken status quo.

    The path forward is not only military. It is institutional. Israel must confront and dismantle the deep state’s grip on its national life — in the media, the courts, the defense establishment, and beyond.

    That is not a partisan mission. It is a democratic one.

    Because only when policy is set by those elected to lead, and not those appointed to resist them, will Israel truly be free, to also defeat our external enemies.

    Only then will Israel become the sovereign, resilient nation its citizens deserve, and its soldiers fight to defend.

    And that truth, more than anything else, is becoming clear to the people of Israel, in the fire of this war.

    We wil defeat our external enemies and overcome the internal deep state. It is a slow, extremely frustrating process, but it Pulse of IsraelAm Yisrael Chai!!!

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