As I’ve been back in October, the ‘ceasefire’ deal just recognizes and funds a Hamas terror state.
The Gaza ‘peace plan’ calls for the ISF to train and support “vetted Palestinian police forces in Gaza”. The only ‘police forces’ in Gaza are Hamas which has been running it for 18 years. When the Clinton administration tried to set up ‘Palestinian police forces’, it armed and trained the Islamic terror groups who went on to wreak havoc with attacks and suicide bombings across Israel. In Gaza, we’re going to arm the PLO and Hamas while executing a plan to ‘disarm’ Hamas. Hamas terrorists will just become Hamas police officers. Hamas will hand over its weapons to itself as part of the “buy back and reintegration program” described in the peace plan. And if we’re lucky, we’ll get to pay Hamas to turn over its weapons to itself
Now we’ve gone from ‘Hamas has to surrender control and leave Gaza’, to talking about ‘amnesty‘.
The United States believes disarmament by Hamas militants in Gaza comes along with some sort of amnesty for the Palestinian group, a U.S. official said on Monday.
The official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity, spoke to mark the return of the remains of the last Israeli hostage held by Hamas. Israel and the United States are pressuring Hamas to disarm as part of a plan in which Gaza will be redeveloped.
Was that the same anonymous official quoted as previously claiming that Hamas wants peace?
“We’ve talked to a number of Hamas people, and we’re hearing throughout the Arab world that people don’t want to be at war anymore. They want peace. They want a better economic future for their families. They want credible homes,” said a second US official on the briefing. “They want what everybody else in this world wants — just a good life, and a good life doesn’t occur through military means.”
I’m going to guess that this fellow is one of Witkoff’s people.
The fact that Hamas is now eager to get this process going should tell you that it’s a scam. Hamas is proposing that it and its terrorists will join the new ‘Palestinian’ technocratic government that will run Gaza.
In a letter to staff on Sunday, seen by Reuters, Gaza’s Hamas-run government urged its more than 40,000 civil servants and security personnel to cooperate with the NCAG but assured them it was working to incorporate them into the new government.
That would include the roughly 10,000-strong Hamas-run police force, four sources familiar with the matter said, a demand that has not been previously reported. Many of them have been patrolling Gaza as Hamas reasserts its grip in areas under its control.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told Reuters the group was prepared to hand over governance to the 15-member NCAG and its chair, Ali Shaath, with immediate effect.
Another issue was whether Sami Nasman, the former Palestinian Authority general assigned to oversee security under the NCAG, would be able to operate effectively, a Palestinian official said.
Nasman, originally from Gaza, moved to the occupied West Bank after Hamas routed Palestinian Authority forces from the enclave in 2007 following a brief civil war. A Hamas court in Gaza later sentenced him in absentia, accusing him of instigating chaos. Nasman denies this.
That was a civil war between the PLO and Hamas. The PLO lost. But after Oct 7, Hamas and the PLO met in Moscow and Beijing to hammer out a unity deal.
The PLO’s ‘technocrats’ and ‘officials’ are the transitional government in Gaza that we’re overseeing. And by ‘we’, I mean Turkey, Qatar and useful pawns like Steven Witkoff.
If the PLO and Hamas can keep from fighting each other, they can get billions in foreign investment, international recognition of their terror state and a platform to launch the next war on Israel.
We just have to build them 180 skyscrapers first.
A “coastal tourism” zone would run along the seafront — long enough for up to 180 skyscrapers, many likely earmarked as hotels.
Kushner highlighted two urban developments, which he referred to as New Rafah and New Gaza.
“New Gaza” is to be a center of industry, with the aim of achieving 100% full employment, Kushner said.
Maybe we should build ‘New Gaza’ in Michigan instead of spending billions to build yet another Islamic terror state.
