Peloni: Damning rebuke of Trump’s effort to push Israel into Phase 2
??Pushing Israel into Phase 2 of President Trump's "peace deal" this month, with things as they are, would be a disaster. It would hand Israel's security straight to its enemies on a plate.
I've held my tongue for months out of respect to the office of the President and his…
— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) December 11, 2025
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Pushing Israel into Phase 2 of President Trump’s “peace deal” this month, with things as they are, would be a disaster. It would hand Israel’s security straight to its enemies on a plate.
I’ve held my tongue for months out of respect to the office of the President and his administration (whom I supported since day 1), but I’d be lying to myself and to everyone who trusts me if I stayed quiet any longer.
Calling this “Phase 2” is a joke. It’s a strategic defeat for Israel that wipes out all its hard-won military gains. Look at the facts:
– Hamas is neither disarmed nor willing to disarm.
– Hezbollah is actively rebuilding its arsenal with no intention of disarming.
– Iran continues to reconstitute its military capabilities while refusing crucial disarmament protocols.
– Iraqi Shia militias are threatening full-scale war if Israel targets Hezbollah in Lebanon.
If President Biden did this, I’d call it out as a betrayal that forces Israel to lose. I can’t turn a blind eye and give Trump a pass. That’s hypocrisy, and I wouldn’t be able to look at myself in the mirror.
The truth is, this looks like a business deal, not a path to victory. It seems driven by the interests of regional players who, let’s be honest, didn’t even condemn October 7th, to say the least.
It’s the same pattern of putting deals before allies, just like choosing Russia over Europe.
President Trump is basically using the security of Israel and Europe as bargaining chips for his deals. It’s that simple.
I won’t choose to stay quiet at the expense of the future of millions of people across the free world.
Enough is enough.
The article describes the feelings most of us have at this point in time. DJT has claimed that he has a plan, but it seems that the plan is at Israel’s cost. I have not yet seen any part of a plan that will bring peace to the middle east. Taking things realistically, giving the Arabs, whether Gazan residents or J&S residents, a win against Israel in the fashion currently being displayed will not bring peace. If these Arabs really think that defeating Israel at the table or in the field will bring them success, they are in for a bad surprise. Their erstwhile “allies” will take it away from them much more viciously than the Israelis would ever have done, and they know that!
For this reason, it is difficult to understand why they keep insisting on getting mowed again and again. Sure, their “allies” are egging them on as cannon fodder to kill as many Israelis as possible but they will always lose at the end. Those “allies” are also egging DJT on, day in, day out. Wonderful friends!!
That’s the dilemma Zionist voters in America face at election time. Israeli leaders seem to have had a better record of standing up to openly hostile administrations than purported friends. When Dem presidents block Israel, there are always Republicans pushing back but when Republicans are in office, crickets.
I was just looking at the Bush letter to Sharon in the Israpundit archive. I was shocked to discover that in it, Bush explicitly called for Pal statehood.
I voted for this guy in 2004 because after 9/11 and during the Oslo Terror War, I wanted to support the war against Jihad but had I known that Bush was throwing Israel under the bus at the same time, maybe I would have just stayed home.
Or voted for my cat with a write-in ballot.
Again.
My deceased cat.
I’m not a Conservative. I’ve rarely agreed with Republicans on economic issues. That’s not why I’ve been voting Republican for national office for the last 20 years. I’m a Zionist. If they endanger Israel, to hell with them. “A plague on all their houses,” as the saying goes. They can’t take MY vote for granted.