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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Newsmax this week that the next stage of the Gaza plan — what officials have been calling “phase two” — is moving toward an announcement even as negotiators work to wrap up the remaining hostage releases. Huckabee’s appearance on Wake Up America Early with Newsmax’s Middle East correspondent underscored that Washington and Jerusalem are coordinating tightly to turn temporary truces into a durable outcome that secures Israeli lives and American hostages.
Phase two is supposed to be the hard part: a durable cessation of violence tied to concrete steps to de‑arm Hamas and secure the border, not another paper promise that evaporates the minute the cameras leave. U.S. envoys have been front and center in drafting an outline — including Ambassador Steve Witkoff’s proposals — and those mediating talks have made clear that the second phase will hinge on reciprocal commitments from the terror regime in Gaza.
Most importantly, Huckabee reported real progress on bringing hostages home, saying the final captive should be reunited with family “in a day or two,” a hopeful update for Americans anguished by months of silence. That optimism matches other reporting that Hamas has signaled willingness to free at least one remaining American and that U.S. diplomacy has been working directly to secure these returns. Conservative Americans should be grateful that our diplomats and allies are laser‑focused on the human cost of this fight.
Make no mistake: the ceasefire remains fragile and must be backed by uncompromising pressure on Hamas and its enablers, not appeasement from international agencies that too often look the other way. Huckabee and other U.S. officials have warned that the truce is holding only because America and Israel have stood firm — and that any effort to reward terror with legitimacy will only invite another round of bloodshed. American policy should be about protection, not pontification.
While some international bodies posture about humanitarian bureaucracies and diplomatic niceties, Huckabee and other conservative voices are rightly calling out failures where they occur — from U.N. mismanagement to hostile foreign actors pushing premature political outcomes. If the world truly cared about Gaza’s civilians it would demand that Hamas stop using people as human shields and that the agencies on the ground actually deliver aid instead of letting terror bosses steal the headlines and the supplies.
This is a moment for patriotic Americans to stand with our ambassador and with Israel, to insist that phase two be real and enforceable, and to demand the swift, total return of every hostage. We owe it to the families who have endured unimaginable pain to back firm diplomacy and decisive action, not moralizing lectures from those who refuse to name the enemy. If our leaders keep their nerve, the last hostage will be home soon and justice will have a chance to follow.
