Settler activist rallies against hostage deal: ‘Trump promised hell for Gaza, and he is giving us hell’

Veteran settler activist Daniella Weiss addresses anti-hostage deal rally in Jerusalem on January 16, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
Veteran settler activist Daniella Weiss addresses anti-hostage deal rally in Jerusalem on January 16, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

At a Jerusalem rally against the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, veteran settler activist Daniella Weiss rails against US President-elect Donald Trump, a prospective peace with Saudi Arabia, and calls for Jewish settlement of the Gaza Strip.

She laments that many on Israel’s right have convinced themselves that Trump “will bring us only good things as if he is the messiah. But here he is, already seeking peace with Saudi Arabia,” which she goes on to label an “illusion of world peace.”

“Trump promised hell for Gaza, and he is giving us hell, the Jewish people!” she says.

“The time has come to go back and cancel this deal. It is a shame and disgrace that we are here, crawling before our enemies,” she says. The crowd begins to chant “death to terrorists” during a brief pause in Weiss’s speech.

Weiss resumes, claiming that rejoicing across the Arab world at news of a hostage and ceasefire deal is “not just rejoicing, but preparations to attack, preparations for war.”

She then repeats some of her points in English, claiming that the entire world fears Trump because “the way [that] he rewarded Hamas for attacking Israel, he is going to reward Russia for attacking Ukraine.”

She calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others in his cabinet to “go by the values of the Bible, the values of the Jewish nation,” and vote against a hostage and ceasefire deal.

“We want the Jewish people in the land of Israel… [we will] never give any part of the living body of the land of Israel to anybody,” she says. “We will settle Gaza, we will settle Lebanon, we will settle the entire Promised Land!”

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