The Trump Board of Peace

Jared Kushner meets with Hamas leader in Egypt (TOI)

Sometimes I wonder just how aware those pushing Israel to make peace with Hamas are of the nature of this terrorist army. It’s almost as though they have no clue about what happened on October 7th nor about Hamas’s celebration of that event and its successful execution. It’s almost as though it never happened.

It is also perplexing that people involved in trying to end this conflict seem to be oblivious to Hamas’s charter, which specifically has as its goal the elimination of the State of Israel by any means necessary. Perplexing as well is that these people seem to have forgotten that Hamas is funded and supported by a nation dedicated not only to Israel’s destruction, but to the destruction of the United States as well.

This is why I am disappointed that there was some sort of framework of peace reached with Hamas that would remove their weapons in exchange for Israel’s complete withdrawal from Gaza. If the goal of Hamas is the destruction of Israel, and they are willing to carry out multiple Holocaust-level atrocities toward that goal, it is certainly safe to assume that they would lie about disarming in order to achieve it.

The current lie is that Hamas will give up its weapons if Israel withdraws from Gaza first. I have a bridge to sell you if you believe that. And they aren’t even shy about rejecting total disarmament. What they have agreed to is putting their weapons into storage. Not giving them up. You would have to be brain-dead not to realize that they want to retain the option of returning to their terrorist ways against Israel at the earliest opportunity.

And yet, the so-called Board of Peace, comprised of representatives of a number of Muslim or Muslim-friendly nations, has condemned Israel for not agreeing to that deal which Hamas already ‘agreed’ to!

If Israel were to agree to remove its troops from Gaza while Hamas gradually gives up its weapons by placing them in storage, it would be an invitation for another October 7th type attack – ‘as soon as things calm down and Israelis start living normal lives again.

The following was reported at WIN:

The foreign ministers of eight Muslim countries on Sunday condemned Israel’s rejection of a roadmap for implementing US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, accusing Israel of obstructing efforts to end the conflict as Hamas and US officials held talks in Cairo on the framework.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates said Israel’s opposition amounted to a “direct repudiation” of the peace plan that “jeopardizes its implementation, and fundamentally undermines the collective efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace.”

“Such rejection confirms that Israel now bears responsibility for obstructing the efforts to bring peace in Gaza” and the rest of the Palestinian territory, the foreign ministers said in a joint statement.

Hamas has accepted the roadmap, which requires the terror group to disarm.

When is the world going to learn that you can’t make peace with people who consider it the will of God to destroy you? That any deal they make is not worth the paper it is written on? And that Hamas will never give up its ultimate goal of restoring what is now Israel to its ‘original’ Palestinian owners?

And when will the world recognize that Iran will do everything it can to ensure that Hamas and its allies have the means to pursue that goal. (Unless its regime is overthrown and replaced with a government friendly to Israel, as it was before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. And that seems as unlikely as ever right now. Things may yet change—but I wouldn’t hold my breath.)

There is no such thing as making a peace deal with Hamas. No more than there was such a thing as the United Kingdom making a lasting peace deal with Hitler. The difference is that, in the case of Hamas and the ideology behind it, there is a zealous religious determination to achieve that goal that even Nazi Germany did not have.

That Jared Kushner is in Egypt now meeting with Hamas leaders is reminiscent of the meeting British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had with Hitler, declaring that a deal had been made guaranteeing “peace for our time.”

We all now know how well that turned out…

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