My confidence in the "Trump Peace Plan" being an enduring one is low despite its worthy intentions or that it bears the name of the most supportive American President with whom Israel has ever dealt.
The plan has been forged with the release of the hostages in mind rather than the permanent security of the world's only Jewish-Nation-State. Even if Hamas is disarmed its genocidal intentions towards Israel in particular and infidels in general remain intact. Read the unaltered Hamas Charter to grasp all of its horrific motivations.
An agreement that allows Hamas to survive even if it is completely disarmed guarantees conflict later. We did not offer amnesty to the leaders of Nazi Germany. We demanded unconditional surrender and hanged its leaders. Today, we can celebrate the release of the hostages, but this plan creates the conditions for taking more.
Why? Because the exhortations in the Koran, Islam's title deed, provide Hamas with a celestial warrant to subjugate and kill all infidels. This renders it particularly impervious to reason. In 1801 Thomas Jefferson found this out the hard way when he was forced to confront and defeat the Barbary Pirates, a 19th. Century version of Hamas, who had been attacking U.S. merchant ships, stealing their cargo and killing or enslaving their crews.
The euphoria currently taking place is reminiscent of the wildly ecstatic mood after the Oslo Accords were signed in September 1993 and after the release of the unfortunate Private Gilad Shalit in October 2011. Both had disastrous consequences for Israel. Alas, the despairing wish of Israel to live in peace, not justice for itself or strategic necessity, motivated its leaders.
The foolish surrender of large parts of Israel's ancient and historic homeland to people who openly declared their lethal hostility towards Israel and ridiculously lopsided prisoner exchanges have done nothing to mollify the hatred of Israel's enemies. Indeed, included in the prisoner swap of 2011 was the verminous Yahya Sinwar who went on to plan and execute the sadistic butchery of innocent civilians on October 7th. How can Sinwar's release be explained or justified to the families of the people he butchered or the families of the 1,152 IDF soldiers killed defending Israel in a war it did not start? If history is to be our guide, around 80% of the 2,000 Arab Palestinian terrorist killers and criminals about to be released from Israel's prisons in exchange for 48 hostages alive and dead will return to committing acts of terrorism. How will we then explain their release to the families of their future victims? This is obscene.
Stopping Israel short of complete victory over its enemies has been a dismal and frustrating pattern of the so-called international community, a term to beguile one's intelligence if ever there was one.
Fearful and panicked that Israel was about to crush Hamas once and for all, the Arab nations realized that they would be left with no influence. Led by the perfidious emir of Qatar they put pressure on Hamas to agree to the Trump Peace Plan.
However, by handing Qatar immunity from attack by Israel, by announcing he will not allow Israel to reclaim sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, by imposing international control over the Gaza Strip, by recruiting the ineffective, anti-Israel Tony Blair to participate in the effort, by hinting at a possible role for the Palestinian Authority, by allowing the jihadi-harboring Islamic supremacists of Turkey to be involved in policing Gaza and by granting amnesty to the filthy, blood drenched Hamas leaders and terrorist killers, President Trump is playing Russian Roulette not only with Israel's national security but also with its very existence.
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