This is what Israel must do in Gaza if Trump gives the green light

Peloni:  Israel must take back the land in Gaza, establish settlements which would in turn support the military presence there.  Simultaneously, emigration from Gaza must be established such that Israel facilitates the freedom of movement so the psychopathic Jew Hating community in Gaza might successfully relocate elsewhere.  This is how peace and security might be restored to Gaza, and simultaneously, Gaza will return to its rightful place under the ownership of the Jewish people, to whom Gaza belonged going back millennia.

Reports from Washington indicate that the Americans, too, have finally gotten the message, and that they, too, have lost patience in the face of Hamas’ refusal. The question, however, is where we go from here, assuming the Americans give us a green light to carry out Trump’s threat: If Hamas refuses to disarm, I will let Israel do it. 

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | May 10, 2026

Hamas gunmen capturing civilian hostages from Kibbutz Beéri on October 7 2023. By Bodycam footage: No human authorship – WSJ, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Reports from Washington indicate that the Americans, too, have finally gotten the message, and that they, too, have lost patience in the face of Hamas’ refusal. The question, however, is where we go from here.

In recent months, in the shadow of the war with Iran, the one that was and the one that is still waiting for us just around the corner, Gaza stopped dominating the headlines in Israel and faded from our consciousness, as though it was not from there that the murderous Oct. 7 terrorist attack was launched, and as though we had not waged a war of annihilation there for nearly two years against an enemy we hit hard but did not defeat.

The war in Gaza ended with a ceasefire that the US imposed on Israel. As in the Lebanese case, this was a unilateral declaration by President Donald Trump, unaccompanied by a detailed agreement between the two sides or a timetable for implementation. And so, the fire stopped, but since then Hamas has been gaining strength, rebuilding its capabilities and restoring its control over those parts of Gaza still in its hands.

As expected, illusions about peace on earth are one thing and reality on the ground is another. Hamas shows no willingness to disarm and relinquish control of the Gaza Strip, and there also appears to be no force, international or Arab, capable of compelling it to do so.

In fact, not much remains of Trump’s Board of Peace, while the international force that was supposed to arrive in the Strip was never even established.

Thus we have returned to the starting point, where we stood on the eve of the ceasefire declaration, without having achieved anything, apart, of course, from a pause in the fighting that we granted Hamas, and which it used to rebuild its power.

Reports from Washington indicate that the Americans, too, have finally gotten the message, and that they, too, have lost patience in the face of Hamas’ refusal. The question, however, is where we go from here, assuming the Americans give us a green light to carry out Trump’s threat: If Hamas refuses to disarm, I will let Israel do it.

Of course, in the current situation in the Strip, with a fragile ceasefire in place, Israel can control most of the territory and close in on Hamas and the area it controls.

In other words, Israel will continue striking Hamas whenever it raises its head, and millions of Gazans will continue living among the ruins, since Israel, with US backing, will not allow the Strip to be rebuilt.

Incidentally, this appears to be a situation that the Arab world is also prepared to accept. After all, millions of refugees from Syria have been living for years in similar conditions in tent camps in Turkey or Jordan. The Gazans’ situation is even better, since Israel allows supplies and food into Gaza on a larger scale than that received by the Syrian refugees.

But past experience shows that it is impossible to preserve a reality of constant volatility over time, since it could erupt again exactly as it did on Oct. 7. Meanwhile, as the weeks and months pass, we will grow tired, forget the lessons of the past, seek out the deceptive quiet, and the ending is already known.

If the boss, Trump, is indeed giving us a green light to act, we must seize the opportunity and finish the job. There is no point in fighting the wars of the past, during which we raided deep inside Gaza and then withdrew, thereby allowing Hamas to return and control the area, and so on, again and again. This path did not bring Hamas’ defeat in the past, and it will not do so in the future.

Israel must first exact a price from Hamas for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack and for its refusal to disarm, and, as in the Syrian case of the Golan Heights, it would be advisable to think about this also in the current Lebanese context. The aggressor’s lands, from which it attacked us, must be taken from it, not as scorched earth, but as territory it will lose forever.

Alongside this, now is the time to take military control of the entire Strip and not allow Hamas to govern it. Military rule has costs, and IDF commanders looking for the lost coin under the streetlight are worried about that. But whatever cost this requires will be far lower than what happened to us on Oct. 7.

Gaza is therefore returning to the headlines, and Israel must prepare with an answer ready in advance, this time one that addresses the threat, rather than containing or postponing it.