Israel cannot trust Hamas in a cease-fire because it only gives them “an opportunity to regroup, rearm, and commit new atrocities against civilians,” Rabbi Yaakov Menken told Newsmax on Monday.

In an interview on “Wake Up America,” Menken, the director of Project Genesis, an organization that promotes online Jewish learning, said, ‘People don’t realize that Hamas has quite a long history of cease-fires.”

“Every single time to them, a cease-fire means an opportunity to regroup, rearm, and commit new atrocities against civilians,” he asserted. “And they’ve declared quite openly that if given the opportunity, that’s exactly what they will do.”

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