Kass on peace in Gaza?

Trump the Peacemaker for VI Day?

October 12 | By John Kass

From the moment Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispered into President Donald Trump’s ear that the terrorist HAMAS group had agreed to the president’s demand for a cease fire in Gaza and return of Israeli hostages, the world had changed.

On Saturday, Palestinians were trudging north from Egypt along the coast, entering Gaza, looking among the rubble for their dead, for any scraps of food. The last of the living Israeli hostages–some 20 broken souls taken in the pro-Iranian HAMAS massacre two years ago–were to be released by Monday.

President Trump, the peacemaker who engineered the amazing ceasefire between Israeli and Palestinian forces, was scheduled to go into the danger zone himself and deliver an historic address on Monday to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.

Trump is an exceedingly brave man of immense will. Those of us who cheered him as he stood up in Butler, Pa., blood on his face after that assassin’s bullet, pumping his fist exhorting patriots to “Fight, Fight, Fight,” know that he is brave. He is the leader the world has craved and needed.

But will the ceasefire hold? Who can say?

This blood feud has gone on for several lifetimes and to think that’s over now defies what we’ve learned about the region and the steady stream of tears. Some Trump supporters, including the conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt, are suggesting it is VI Day, for Victory over Iran Day. Iran is a hateful nation that lies and lies. Iran’s tracheary is understood. The only thing we can be sure of is that the Iranian mullahs hate us as much as Israel. Their only truth is that they won’t ever stop trying to destroy us.

I type this while American envoys Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner spoke at a rally in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. Witkoff and Kushner are successful because unlike 50 years of Western diplomacy, they actually listen.

The people were ecstatic with joy about the cease fire, and offered praise for Trump, but I have a question:

WWOD?

What will Obama do?

He’ll be tempted to speak. He has his allies among the leftist Democrats and the media that would shield him from reality if they could. But Trump has engineered things so that Obama’s Iran has few allies left and little room to maneuver.

Former President Barack Obama was America’s pro-Iran president. He raised his messianic arms to carry the Democrat Party toward Iran. He returned billions of seized Iranian funds and Obama tied himself and fellow Democrats to Iran, allowing Iran to develop a nuclear program that threatened the world. He shamefully protected Iran’s nuclear ambitions. And corporate legacy media shamefully protected it all.

But before he offers comments in mitigation of himself and those allied with him, isn’t it time Obama eat some crow?

As Hewitt and others have noted, Trump understood Iran as a malevolent danger not only to Israel but to the world. On Trump’s orders, on Jan. 3, 2020, he had American forces kill Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force and a powerful figure in the Iranian government when it was learned that Soleimani was planning murders of U.S. soldiers.

Trump further isolated Iran with the Abraham Accords.

He “lost” to Biden in a rigged election of 2021, and when re-elected, Trump closed ranks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and gave Israel the green light to take out the Iran air defenses. Then Trump dropped Midnight Hammer to destroy Iran’s nuclear program.

And yet, when Israel attacked Hamas officials in Qatar, Trump strongly objected and rattled Israel’s chain, proving to Turkey and other Gulf nations that he wanted peace. Trump then reached out to Turkey and Egypt and actually listened to what they had to say, using the American economy to build those economic bridges of friendship.

Iran, facing internal pressure has begun to execute its citizens in reported midnight execution sprees. Iran has been isolated. Hamas is isolated, although now Hamas fighters reportedly continue seeking power in Gaza, as warlords and clans begin ascending to rule Gaza.

And in the midst of this, the Israeli hostages are coming home.

Could this have happened under President Joe Biden?

Absolutely not. Even on his best day perhaps some 40 years ago, it wouldn’t have happened. He was a corrupt grifter and the grifters who rode in with him portrayed him as something of a foreign policy wise-man, but it was a lie. Biden and his team were incapable. And the Biden Administration was peppered with Obama holdovers and defended by the pro-Obama corporate media. Obama Deputy National Security adviser Ben Rhodes was the architect of the Iran Nuclear deal. Rhodes brother David was president of CBS news at the time. Ben Rhodes bragged how easy it was to manipulate the media for Obama’s aims to set Iran on the nuclear path.

He boasted to the New York Times:

“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing,” Rhodes said.

And they fed that skat to Americans for years, and Americans greedily wolfed it all down because they had been convinced that Obama–the silky liar–was a political demigod.

But there was a need for a sea change when it came to Iran, and Trump created the scenarios and with his willpower pushed it through. And there to chronicle it all are the lords of discredited left wing corporate media. Leftist journalists consider themselves heroes, not prostitutes, and among them you should include the shameless CNN masturbator and leftist political analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

Trump won’t be given the Nobel Peace Prize. That was given to Obama just after he was elected, though he had literally done nothing for peace except having his behind smooched by the media. CNN’s Toobin joined others on CNN to praise Obama. In October of 2000 Toobin also exposed himself to shocked colleagues on a Zoom call. He attributed his error to thinking his camera was off. It wasn’t. Nevertheless, CNN later rehired him as a legal analyst.

I don’t suppose the corrupt corporate legacy media would have a recipe for crow.

The origin of the phrase is not precisely known, but “eating crow” is about admitting your mistakes, although it involves relating a metaphorical humiliation to the distasteful experience of eating a tough, foul-tasting crow . They are carrion eaters, munching on road kill.

And the corporate media is also stubborn when it comes to denial. They didn’t admit to their killing the Joe Biden corruption stories or the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell stories by Miranda Devine and the New York Post.

So how would you prepare a crow? Would you braise it or fry it? And how would you serve a crow?

You can’t very well serve them to dinner guests who’d place a napkin over their heads so as to hide their shamed faces from the eyes of God as do our allies French chomping down on their guilty pleasure of eating Ortalan. And they’re just too small to fit a beer can inside of them as we do with Beer Can Chicken.

Some of you know that my wife Betty and I are thinking about writing Chicago Cook Book. So my research took me to the interwebs and reports from The Illustrated London Cookery Book by Frederick Bishop, published in 1852:

“Ortolans are solitary birds: they fly in pairs, rarely three together, and never in flocks. They are taken in traps, from March or April to September, when they are often poor and thin; but, if fed with plenty of millet-seed and other grain, they become sheer lumps of fat, and delicious morsels. They are fattened thus in large establishments in the south of Europe; and Mr. Gould states this to be effected in Italy and the south of France in a dark room.

“The Ortolan is considered sufficiently fat when it is a handful; and is judged by feeling it, and not by appearance. They should not be killed with violence, like other birds; this might crush and bruise the delicate flesh, and spoil the coup d’oeil—to avoid which, the best mode is to plunge the head of the Ortolan into a glass of brandy.”

The Ortolan are trapped in nets, then fattened, and finally drowned in cognac, which is quite cruel. But Ortalan buntings are song birds, not carrion eaters. And no amount of cognac will make them tasty, not even if you drown them in a can of red sauce No 10.

The corporate media has no shame. Neither does Obama. Or Iran.

And neither do crows.

There is talk that President Trump should be in line for the Nobel Prize next year. It might matter to him and his family and friends, but to my mind it is rather like a journalist celebrating a Pulitzer Prize after what corporate legacy media has done to itself.

The Washington Post and the New York Times continue to hold on to their Pulitzer Prizes they “won” after promoting the Obama/Hillary Clinton lie that Trump was an agent of Putin.

Like their Pulitzers, a Nobel Peace Prize is an empty thing. It has no credibility. It has no weight, as the Nobel Peace Prize and the various associated committees have no weight. You can give a whore a medal for virtue but what does that make her virtuous? What would it accomplish? Nothing.

What’s important is that the perhaps the mothers of Israel and Palestine can perhaps raise their children in peace. That would be award enough.

And there is always Iran out there, waiting.

(Copyright 2025 John Kass)