Israel Agrees to Trump's Plan to End Gaza War, But You Can Guess Who's Going to Torpedo It
We’re back to this game again. Israel wants to end the war, but Hamas needs to sign off—and they won’t. It’s the same nonsense that’s scuttled innumerable ceasefire agreements. It’s almost as if you can’t trust terrorists, which is something the liberal media, Democrats, and college students don’t understand, albeit the latter party is so antisemitic that they don’t care. If Hamas is that entrenched in Gazan society, then it should be excised.
American presidents always get seduced by the siren song of peace in the Middle East, and usually the results are either ineffective or disastrous.
The first mistake is allowing the concerns of Palestinians and their supporters to take a position, front and center, among all the other international concerns in the world. Why, for example, is a resolution of the Palestinian issue more important than stopping the Muslim genocide against Christians in Nigeria, and Christians and Druze in Syria? Devoting as much time and effort (and blood and treasure) to solving the Palestinian problem simply tends to give credibility to their (mostly imagined) grievances.
In the second place, an agreement such as the one proposed depends largely on the acquiescence of Hamas and other intransigent groups. Palestine has always been used to get leverage over us by a variety of enemies (ours and Israel's); does anybody really think that our foes are eager to remove this thorn from our heel? Plus, as long as Hamas is permitted to continue its existence as a political unit, peace will ultimately prove to be impossible.
With all due respect, Mr. President, this is not equivalent to doing a big New York real estate deal. Fanatics exist in a world that has its own, unique logic, however twisted, and Hamas and its supporters are not speaking the same language that you are, and undoubtedly will keep acting in bad faith. I wish you well in your endeavors, and maybe this is another version of multidimensional chess that is beyond my comprehension (e.g., maybe you're setting Hamas up for the blame when this fails) but my estimation of the prospects for success? Low.
I expect that this is a concession to the other, less-than-outright-hostile Islamic states in the region. They don't want to see Israel completely crush one of their cousins.
ReplyDeleteThat Israel is 99% there with the crushing is not relevant -- saving face is very important to the macho Arab culture.
And I expect that Hamas will reject it, sooner ran than later. It's effectively a surrender, and aside from saving face, Islam generally doesn't allow surrenders; they either die or run away.
That said, I agree, it's a waste of time, and likely to fail.
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Yes, as a face-saving device for the other Arab states, I can sort of understand it. That's a somewhat more intelligible motive than trying to please the Palestinians themselves.
DeleteI never try to figure out what his endgame is.
ReplyDeleteHe tried to work with our fine betters his first term and learned it was a mistake.
Hopefully he understands the Pali Death cult is as unreasonable as the Dems and GOPe and has some plan that takes that into account.
I think the plan is to broadcast a reasonable solution, then let Israel finish them off, everyone knows Hamas will not agree to their own demise.
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