Peloni: The Gaza plan requires the defeat of Hamas. In the face of such diplomatic ineptitude as evidenced in the plan negotiated by Witkoff and Kushner, only Israel has the means, the interest and fortitude to do what is needed, and only Trump stands in the way of them doing it, as Trump has stated himself. If Trump’s hopes for something other than a Korea stalemate model in Gaza, he must finally step aside, stop negotiating with the Hamas butchers of his own citizens, and let this war finally come to its natural end. His initial instinctive choice to move the war trained Gazans to Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere was an inspired vision constructed upon the need of addressing the brutality and savagery endemic in the Gazan population. With the implosion of Kushner/Witkoff plan at the UN, the time is right to do what was always right, but the question remains to be answered if Trump will allow this to come to be.
Avi Abelow
United Nations General Assembly. Photo by Mojnsen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
The American proposal at the UN, an international force in Gaza, was dead on arrival, and anyone actually grounded in Middle Eastern reality knew it.
As I’ve said earlier, no international force on earth will disarm Hamas. None. Only the IDF can do that. Period. Every inch of this American fantasy plan was doomed from the start.
So what just officially buried it at the UN?
It is being reported that Russia and China, both wielding veto power, immediately blocked the U.S. draft resolution.
Not only that, Russia even countered with its own proposal, deliberately stripping out every American demand: no international force, no dismantling of Hamas, no demilitarization. Just a diplomatic slap across Washington’s face.
And the biggest embarrassment? The Arab states. The same governments that nodded along in Sharm el-Sheikh to Kushner and Witkoff suddenly declared they would not support the American plan or any foreign force in Gaza.
But here’s the absurdity: without a Security Council mandate they refuse to cooperate, yet they are the ones blocking the mandate!
This is what a full-fledged American diplomatic failure looks like, by Kushner and Witkoff who totally do not understand how to deal with the jihadi Muslim Middle East, and think that money and economic deals can persuade them from stopping their jihadi path.
And meanwhile, an internal memo from the Trump administration reveals anxiety that their Gaza peace plan might fail and damage America’s credibility in the Arab and Muslim world.
But let’s talk about credibility in the Middle East for a moment, because Washington is hemorrhaging it faster than ever.
The U.S. expects the region to take it seriously while it relies on Qatar as a “neutral” mediator?
Everyone in the Middle East knows that Qatar is the most powerful jihadi actor enabling jihadi Islam in the U.S. and pouring corrosive influence into American institutions, in an effort to destroy America from within. Qatari money is literally succeeding in ripping America apart on both sides of the political aisle.
The Middle East is laughing. And the joke gets worse: Washington treating Syrian terror leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, an ISIS-linked terrorist with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, as if he’s a legitimate political figure. This isn’t diplomacy, it’s delusion. And the jihadist Muslim Middle East is laughing.
Reality check:
All Gazans are Hamas.
Only the IDF can demilitarize Gaza. There will be no international force in Gaza. Hamas will not be dismantled by press conferences or UN debate.
Gaza will remain frozen, isolated, and prevented from rebuilding until Israel goes into Gaza, remains there forever and all Gazans are elsewhere.
Whether Washington accepts it or not, this is the only practical outcome on the ground to ensure “peace” with Gaza.
Now winter is coming, and with it the next propaganda war around the corner.
Mark my words: we will soon see global media campaigns showing flooded tents in Gaza, tugging on Western heartstrings, creating immense “humanitarian pressure” to bring in thousands of caravans to Gaza.
Absolutely not.
This must be forbidden.
Not one shred of normalcy can be allowed back into Gaza, not one, until Hamas is destroyed and the territory is fully demilitarized, exactly as outlined in Trump’s Gaza plan. That is the only way we can protect 10 million Israelis from a jihadi Muslim Gaza.
Bringing caravans into Gaza is the first step to allowing Hamas’ survival and Gaza remaining a terror hub to endanger Israelis.
It would let the terror regime entrench itself again under the cover of “humanitarian relief.”
Any Gazan who wants to escape the winter in a tent? They simply can move to the caravans in Egypt. That’s where the humanitarian responsibility lies, not on Israel, and certainly not while Hamas still breathes.
Israel cannot, must not, bend on this.
Not an inch.
And that leads to the core truth:
The only real way to eliminate the terror threat from Gaza is implementing Trump’s Gaza Emigration Plan for all Gazans, because they are all Hamas.
Relocation for those Gazans who want a future. That is the only way 10 million Israelis will be safe from Gaza. The participation and celebration of all Gazans in the Oct. 7th atrocities makes that clear. Not one Gazan remains in Gaza. They go back to Egypt where most of them came from.
Everything else is fantasy. Everything else is weakness. Everything else guarantees that this war will simply repeat itself in another year, or another five.
Washington may be confused, Qatar may be manipulating, and Jolani may be getting photo ops, but Israel cannot afford to drift with their illusions.
Israel must stand firm. No caravans. No normalization. No international force. And no future for Gazans in Gaza.
The safety of Israelis comes first.
Not fantasies of transactional deals with a jihadi Muslim Middle East that wants to destroy Israel as a first step to destroying America and the whole freedom-loving world.
Only then does peace with Gaza have a chance.
Gazans proved to us that they can’t live there, and it’s time to make Gaza Jewish again. Just as Jews lived there for hundreds of years before the British expelled them in 1929. Just as the Chief Rabbi of Gaza city in the 17th century Yisrael Najara lived there and wrote the famous Shabbat song Ka Ribon sung by Jews every Friday night, all over the world. It’s time to return. The only way to deal with jihadi Islam, is to make them pay by losing the only thing they care about, land. That is only way they understand that they are defeated.
it will take time for reality to hit the Trump administration, but eventually, that is how we will bring peace to Gaza.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
Avi and Peloni, excellent article and lead-in. While not exactly saying it out loud, those opposing the dead-on-arrival US proposal are not really fighting against the USA, they are using this opportunity to bring the USA down a bunch of pegs. As seen in the last few days, those that supported the Trump plan in Sharm have dissipated and the plan us gone . The reality check cannot be repeated often enough.
Avi writes: Reality check:
All Gazans are Hamas.
In that case, deportation is too generous. Hamas = Jew killer, whether hands on or through training one’s children, as the mothers do. Sorry if this sounds too stark, but Jewish compassion has been used against Jews too much. Israel is now considering a law to kill captured Hamas soldiers instead of imprisoning them.
Consider extending that law tp any Hamas soldier, male or female. A compassionate exception can be made for renouncing Hamas, apologizing for what it did to Israel and for one’s own actions. Such a person can be considered for a stay of execution, with other factors also looked at.
I am glad to see my statement got two likes. It is an avoided position but the only logical one, IMO. In fact, at the beginning of this last war, it was talked about by some, and then timidly replaced by a confused narrative about giving humanitarian aid to Gaza/Hamas.
With more people talking like this, this position can be moved back inside the Overton Window and hopefully acted on.
Whose resolution? The Friends of Israel group at the UN????
Trump “will allow”. Who asked him, and what of it if Israel does what they have to?
I hate to say it, but the words “paper tiger” come to mind…
Excellent article that should be required reading for everyone concerned, including the negotiating teams. The best and only solution.
Avi I couldn’t agree with you more! Every word you wrote was the factual truth. I sincerely hope that Trump comes to his senses and soon.