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Many have noted the conspicuous silence of the “ceasefire now” crowd following the announcement of the U.S.-brokered peace deal in Gaza. President Donald Trump’s central role in the deal doubtlessly plays a part in that silence. After all, it’s difficult to tip one’s hat to “literal Hitler,” even if Hitler does, as the Babylon Bee hilariously noted, bring peace to Israel.

But there’s an even more obvious reason the Left isn’t cheering the ceasefire and aid deliveries it’s spent two years howling for: It wanted Israel to lose this war or, at the very least, suffer greatly.

PHASE TWO OF THE ISRAEL-HAMAS DEAL REQUIRES TRUMP’S PATIENT FORTITUDE

Having swallowed whole the ideological gibberish about the evils of Zionism and the oppressive, “settler-colonialist” regime Palestinians supposedly lived beneath prior to Oct. 7, 2023, the Left came to regard the destruction of Israel, or at the very least, the extreme punishment of Israel, as a moral imperative, even if it masked its intentions with euphemisms such as “liberation” and “justice.”

Indeed, as hostages and prisoners are exchanged and humanitarian aid floods into war-torn........

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