‘I cannot tell you how long I’ve been waiting for a statement’ like that
By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal
In one day, 117 of the people Iris Weinstein Haggai grew up with, including her parents, “vanished.” Among the 400 residents living in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one mile from the border of Gaza, one in every four were either killed or taken hostage during the terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
Like so many in Israel, Haggai has been waiting for world leaders to take action to see the hostages freed, which is why she says she is encouraged by President-elect Donald Trump’s recent statement on Truth Social.
“I cannot tell you how long I’ve been waiting for a statement like President-elect Trump’s,” Haggai, 39, told The Daily Signal.
“Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all talk, and no action,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Dec. 2.
Trump pledged that “there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity” if the hostages are not released by Jan. 20, the day he is sworn into office.
“Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW,” Trump wrote.