Has Israel ever known real peace? Are the appeasers working for War or Peace?

Howard Rotberg |   Oct 17, 2025

Book of Jeremiah, chapter 6, verses 10 – 14:

“To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken; behold the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord. I am weary of holding it in: …for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord. From the least of them to the greatest of them everyone is greedy for gain; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people, superficially saying Peace, peace when there is no peace.”

Have we been so beaten up by the antagonism of most of the world, including, rather importantly, media, education, and young people, that we are getting confused about the line between peace and war? Has Israel ever known real peace? Are the appeasers working for War or Peace?

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Peloni: This is a much better response to the savagery ongoing in Gaza. In fact, this sort of heavy handed demonstration of Hamas’ return to power should have been anticipated and threats such as the one stated by Trump below should have been made explicitly clear to Hamas, if not in the deal struck, at least upon hearing the first reports of the butchery going on there. Importantly, the lack of such an explicit threat being included in the deal, or even after the slaughter began, serves very well to inform us that the concern for the Gazan people was never actually the focus which had been pretended by many over the past two years. The Gazans are, always have been, and perhaps always will be, understood to be a tool leveraged against Israel by those who feign an interest in the people of Gaza.  This is why 1.5 million people have unconscionably been left trapped inside an urban war zone by the international community, with no access to flee the battlezone.  In this way, Israel was left to answer for collateral casualties while also being handicapped with the needs of what is clearly an enemy civilian population, while the real interest in protecting the Gazans was coldly ignored by their so called supporters.

Hamas forces clashed with armed clans, filmed themselves executing civilians

All Israel News Staff | Published: October 17, 2025

Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C.. By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

After initially signaling his approval for Hamas’ bloody crackdown against its internal opponents, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the terror group with renewed violence if it didn’t stop.

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Peloni:  Gen. Avivi explains that the recent discussions in Washington as being a form of the modern day equivalent of the Feb. 1945 Yalta Conference, where the fate of the future world was negotiated and where the New World Order which followed WWII was decided.  He indicates that the importance of these negotiations are what brought the various Arab and Muslim nations to the table, and that Israel will likely being signing peace agreements in the coming years as a result of the understandings reached during this Yalta-like negotiated vision for the future.

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Peloni:  In this essay, Cherie provides an important and balanced critique of Trump’s efforts to court favor with Jihadists.

Cherie Zaslawsky | Oct 16, 2025

Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.  Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Just when you think Trump has messed up bigly, he surprises you with an unexpected

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Peloni:  In this essay, Joan offers us an important insight into the rational behind Trump’s efforts to enter into the world of the Jihadists so as to be able to actually communicate clearly with them, and thereby negotiate in their own world, as it were, while also leveraging the most influential aspect of negotiating with a Jihadist, namely that they will be defeated and thereby humiliated should (or when) they betray any agreements struck with the US.    To this point, perhaps this was the very real purpose of Israel making a limited strike in Doha in the first place.

By Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | Oct 17, 2025

Some of the most astute writers and commentators who have weighed in on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire/hostage release/end of war issue that is on every media outlet’s front burner today and for the last few weeks is dead wrong about what they say is the foolish, dangerous, misguided, cave-to-the-terrorists, endanger Israel, empower-our-enemies choice that President Donald Trump and his negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have made in this delicate process.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

As a doctoral student decades ago, in the ‘70’s, I became very interested in the struggle of scores of millions of non-Arab peoples whose plight and cause had been virtually ignored by most of the rest of the world.

While delving into the situation peoples like Egypt’s true indigenous inhabitants, the Copts, and the Levant’s Druse were facing, the primary focus of my research was on the long-oppressed Amazigh/Kabyle “Berbers” of North Africa and the Kurds of the Middle East, whose population was mainly spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

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Peloni:  Oren makes an important point about the need to remind the world the important role played by Haj Amin al-Husseini’s leadership while opposing the establishment of the Jewish Homeland and later the Jewish State.

Arlene Kushner | October 15, 2025

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Jubilation it was on Monday, when 20 live hostages – the last of the living hostages – were released by Hamas, between 8 and 11 AM, in accordance with Trump’s plan.

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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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#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?

Israeli PM’s advisor @CarolineGlick… pic.twitter.com/jSMCByaWSO

— 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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