Janet Levy: Although I disagree with the author’s somewhat optimistic view of the viability of using clan architecture as an alternative to Hamas, I’ve highlighted key points of importance in his article.

Key points:

– American approval for Hamas to conduct Gaza security operations contradicts the so-called “peace plan” and guarantees its rebuilding.
– Hamas has endured despite military setbacks, maintaining 10-15% of its rockets, keeping its leadership in Doha, and preserving its military command structure. It has increased its reserves by 15,000 fighters and is planning for quick reconstitution.
– Clashes in some neighborhoods show that Hamas is removing other options to maintain its power.
– The security vacuum mentioned by Trump results from Hamas’s totalitarian control, which has prevented the development of alternatives.
The author sees some hope in clan administrative capabilities, which could boost economic activity, improve infrastructure, and create different social dynamics. Critics warn that empowering clans might lead to the formation of hostile fiefdoms.
– The Israeli military must stay in control throughout the transition period.
– The Palestinian Authority has proven itself completely unable to address Gaza’s urgent security needs.
– The technocratic committee described in Trump’s plan lacks enforcement power.
– Israeli military operations against Hamas must continue despite the restrictions of the American-orchestrated “ceasefire.” The terrorist group must remain legitimate military targets regardless of American statements about temporary approval.

Gregg Roman | MEF | October 15, 2025

25th anniversary of Hamas celebrated in Gaza. By Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

The October 13, 2025, announcement that Hamas has received American approval to conduct security operations in Gaza represents a catastrophic strategic error that undermines the long-term objective of excising the terrorist organization from Gaza’s governance. President Trump’s statement that “we gave them approval for a period of time” to address lawlessness fundamentally contradicts his own 20-point peace plan’s core principle: Hamas must have no role—direct, indirect, or in any form—in Gaza’s future governance. While the remaining 19 points of the framework continue to be negotiated and implemented, this premature legitimization of Hamas’s security role virtually guarantees its complete reconstitution.

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Peloni:  The people of Gaza are and always have been a tool in the hands of Hamas and their international allies, supporters, and enablers.  Indeed, the people of Gaza, like the people in the PA controlled territories have been weaponized over the decades to demonize, delegitimize and kill Jews.  It is a whole of society objective, one which fails to address the developed barbarism which attacks Israel, and which is today overseeing the meaningless butchery of the local Gazan population.  It is this institutionalized and ignored psychopathy, rather than economic deficiencies, which should be understood to be the greater concern in Gaza, in the PA, in Jordan and across the Arabian and Muslim states… Yet, long silences and faux diversions to this barbarism are all that are offered as remedies to dealing with the root of this butchery, as it is the tolerance of savagery which will prevent any peace from being long achieved.  Failing to deal with the institutionalized radicalism in the society and religious centers in Gaza and elswere only serves to perpetuate war, which of course, can hardly be believed to be by accident again and again over the years.

Peloni:  A very important lesson from a very related moral and strategic surrender.

The failure to decapitate the leadership of Hamas when the opportunity presented itself is one of modern Israel’s most devastating missed chances.

Moshe Phillips | October 16, 2025

Photo by Flickr – Flickr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

Hamas was founded in the late 1980s, and by 1992, during Yitzhak Rabin’s time as Israel’s prime minister, it had already become a major Islamic terrorist organization. It had shown a clear penchant for violence, including murder and kidnapping. Rabin initially took decisive steps to consign Hamas to the dustbin of history.

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Peloni:  The war of attrition in Ukraine continues with what appears to be meager gains by Russia over the past year, but what has matured in the absense of massive gains in territory has been strategic advances in key areas while gains along the entire Russo-Ukrainian line of battle, all while Ukraine failed to provide its yearly summer offensive.  While recognizing that Ukraine’s summer offensives have been better known for its mere propaganda value than for battlefield gains, the absense of this year’s theatrics display perhaps both better strategic leadership and the reality that Ukraine’s deficits of men and moral have led to greater stewardship of these dwindling assets as they lost ground across the entire line of battle over the past year.  Perhaps the war on Russia’s economy will have an effect, but Ukraine’s forces stand with their back up against a series of  strategic gorges, and as Mr. Legends reminds us, Russia likes to fight in the snow…

Peloni:  When the time comes for Hamas to surrender, the IDF will be the “we” which Trump references here, and there will be no constraint on Israel by the presence of Israeli hostages.  All of this, however, will come AFTER all the Israeli hostages are returned home.  The living have been returned, but many of the dead remain in Gaza at this point, but this will not last foreveer.  In the meantime, Hamas will try to evoke the imagery needed to cower its enemies into submission, while its coffers are refilled with Aid-For-Gaza contributions, which is a truly sickening prospect being entertained in the Trump plan.

By Pamela Geller – on October 15, 2025

The direct quote from the president:

“Hamas will disarm, and if they don’t, we will disarm them, and It will happen quickly and perhaps violently, but they will disarm. Do you understand me?” (X).

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Yossi Baum

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#FirstpostPoV: The US-brokered peace deal in Gaza is entering its second stage, which requires Hamas to disarm and give up its political ambitions. Will Hamas agree to this condition? How will Israel react if Hamas rejects this demand?

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— Firstpost (@firstpost) October 15, 2025

FDD | October 14, 2025

Latest Developments

• Post-War Management Approved: Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on October 13 that 15 so far unnamed Palestinian technocrats have been approved in conjunction with Israel to manage post-war Gaza. “We need to deploy them to take care of the daily life of the people in Gaza,” Abdelatty told reporters at the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, which involved over 20 world leaders. U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace proposal for Gaza calls for a “temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people of Gaza.” The committee will be “made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the ‘Board of Peace,’ which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J. Trump.”

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Madeline Brooks:  As tense as most of us are about the next bad thing to happen in Gaza, here’s a bigger picture of what to worry about. Sorry to bother you, and I’m feeling it too.

But it’s important. Do any of us know what the “technocratic” control of Gaza would mean? Techno whistle blower Patrick Wood sees it as a totally controlled digital and biometric society, a model for establishing control of our own troubled cities, like Chicago. Or like anywhere, because the ultimate goal of globalists is digital control of everyone, everywhere – according to Wood. Actually, this was in the news for a while as Agenda 2021, 2030, before it got displaced by more immediate news.

Gaza, the total basket case, would be a good test case, even if it took some long range planning to get to this point, which sounds pretty diabolical. And maybe paranoid, but i’m willing to look into it, and you might be too.

Patrick Wood on Trump’s Peace Plan & the Technocratic Takeover of Gaza

Hamas is forced to release the hostages, and the cheering Gazans aren’t famine victims

Clifford D. May | Oct 15, 2025

Celebration in the PA territories.  Screengrab via Youtube

Gazans are celebrating. For the past few days, large crowds of healthy, energetic men, women, and children have been cheering, dancing in the streets, and chanting “Allahu Akbar!” – all recorded on their fully charged cell phones.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | October 15, 2025

*Israel’s critical contribution to the deterrence, minimization and elimination of Iran’s nuclear, ballistic, conventional and terroristic capabilities – which poses a clear and present threat to all pro-US Arab regimes, as well as to the US national and homeland security – was demonstrated by the October 2024 and June 2025 Israel’s air force offensives, which devastated Iran’s air force, air defenses and ballistic capabilities.

*Israel’s June 13, 2025 air force offensive on Iran paved the road to the June 21, 2025 successful US bombing of three major Iranian nuclear installations, unimpeded by Iran’s air force and air defenses, which were devastated by the Israeli offensive. no other ally of the US could have demonstrated such intelligence and operational capabilities, rendering an exceptional added-value to the us posture of deterrence, regionally and globally.

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Peloni

Mark Levin’s Saturday, October 11 Show

Mark opens his Saturday show with a call for celebration of the soon to be released (now released) Israeli hostages, but with a note of caution highlighting the many terrorist groups which brought about and celebrated October 7 still remain free.

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By Amil Imani | Am Thinker | October 14, 2025

Screengrab via Youtube

In a stunning display of masterful diplomacy and unyielding resolve, President Donald Trump has once again proven himself the unrivaled peacemaker of our era, orchestrating the release of the final 20 Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas for over two agonizing years.

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Peloni:  This is an important article.  Without addressing the open support and advocacy of Jihad inherrant in Islamic society and religious teachings, any attempt at peace should be understood to be a practice in the art of hudna.  Accepting political deception employed towards the goal of ultimate conquest is not a peaceful endeavor, it is simply a staged surrender.

The myth That Calls Itself a Peace Declaration

Aynaz Anni Cyrus | Oct 14, 2025

I stayed fairly quiet yesterday. I was told, politely, of course, to “let people celebrate” for a day. So I did. I gave it 24 hours while the headlines cheered the return of hostages and the signing of yet another “peace” agreement.

Now the day is over. And I’m back with the reality that seems to be missing from the table.

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The Government Shutdown, a Democrat War waged to cover 0.5% of the nation to enrich Obama-Hillary financier Warren Buffett’s insurance companies & Berkshire Hathaway, is Bankrupting Us!

Andrew Benjamin | Oct 13, 2025

The Truth Behind Obamacare

Andrew Benjamin | September 21 2015

NOTE: NEW YORK POST – October 11. 2025 – more than ten years after I wrote the essay below and published then in WESTERN FREE PRESS.

“Democrats shut down the government partly to force Republicans to extend COVID-era boosts in Obamacare subsidies that Dems once called “temporary” but now say are needed to keep the program viable.

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Janet Levy:  14 minutes if you can stand it!

Walsh talks about Kirk’s abandonment of the pro-Israel side ‘for good reason’ and blames Jews for not winning hearts and minds. He thinks we should check ourselves and see what we’re doing wrong. If so many people are now opposed to Israel, we need to reevaluate our strategy and policies. According to Walsh, the Jews are not engaging in enough self-reflection.

There’s no recognition of antisemitism and anti-Israel propaganda and how it feeds people with falsehoods about Israel’s existential war on seven fronts as well as our history. Walsh mentions Candace Owens as if she’s a normative voice. He justifies Kirk’s continuing relationship with Carlson despite his platforming Holocaust deniers and antisemites who lie about Jews, Jewish history and Israel.

Truly sickening!

By Janatan Sayeh | October 13, 2025

It is no secret that the Islamic Republic has long sponsored proxy groups abroad, yet far less is known about how these same networks have been used to protect the regime at home. Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias, and the Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade have all played roles in suppressing anti-regime movements inside Iran. Recently, reports of these fighters harassing Iranian female university students have ignited a new wave of public outrage.

Between October 6 and 11, residents of Iran’s western Hamedan Province protested after reports emerged that Iraqi fighters studying at Bu-Ali Sina University had been targeting Iranian female students for so-called “temporary marriages”—a practice permitted under Shiite law and frequently exploited by entities affiliated with Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to sexually exploit women and children.

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