Victoria Coates: Hamas Is ‘Still Hell-Bent on the Genocidal Project of Eliminating Israel’

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BARTIROMO: “President Trump revealing plans for a trip to the Middle East as Israel launches a crackdown on the West Bank. All of this as we read rate the release of the remainder of the 33 hostages that Hamas is expected to free in the first phase of the cease-fire deal but Trump admitted earlier this week he is not confident the cease-fire will hold, join me with reaction heritage foundation national security vice president and former deputy national and wiser to president Donald Trump author of the battle for the Jewish state and how Israel and America can win, Victoria Coates back with us. Thank you for being here, your reaction?”

COATES: “I think the president is being rational. As hostages come home it’s a cause for rejoicing people have been held for hundred days after appalling circumstances, there is still Americans their. This is something you made a priority since his reelection in November providing clear American leadership that the hostages need to come home. I think that is a good thing and should be celebrated. But at the same time were dealing with Hamas they are terrorist to have kept the war going for 15 months and they started in the first place there still bent on the genocidal project of eliminating Israel. As thankful as we can be that a few people are coming out at the same time we cannot have illusions of who were dealing with and that’s what I think President Trump was speaking to.”