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The disastrous ceasefire deal proposed by the Biden administration and rubber stamped by Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, doesn’t just free thousands of Islamic terrorists while letting Hamas reclaim power, it also commits America to a 5-year rebuilding of Gaza.
If the Trump administration backs the deal, it will be forced to act as a ‘guarantor’ which will not only mean protecting Hamas, but an extended terrorist nation-building program bigger even than Iraq or Afghanistan. Phase 3 of the deal reportedly calls for a 3-5 year rebuilding program.
That timetable would have President Trump spend his whole second term rebuilding Gaza.
And the UN’s actual numbers are far worse. The UN Development Program is estimating $50 billion in costs to rebuild Gaza by 2040. Since the UN is not known for bringing in projects on time, it’s entirely possible that nation-building Gaza would cost even more and last indefinitely.
This would not have been the deal that a Trump administration national security team would have signed on to, but unfortunately President-elect Trump’s envoy Witkoff (pictured above) went along with the Biden deal. Witkoff worked with Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Middle East adviser Brett McGurk to make the United States a ‘guarantor’ of a bad plan that includes an “interim force” to police Gaza, extended “reconstruction” and a “technocratic” unity government acting as a front for the Hamas and the PLO terrorists as part of a unity deal formed in Beijing under China.
This is nation-building. And it may be the single worst example of it. Even worse than Iraq.
There was some remote possibility that Afghanistan and Iraq could work out, there is zero chance of nation-building in Gaza and the West Bank leading to anything except terrorism, billions of dollars in foreign aid, more dead Americans and another war in the region.
Nation-building and endless war are the opposite of the foreign policy that Trump ran on.
The good news is that the Trump administration can pull out of this terrible Biden deal. And if he pulls out before Phase 3, America won’t be stuck doing more terrorist nation-building in Gaza.
“We’ve made it very clear to the Israelis, and I want the people of Israel to hear me on this—if they need to go back in, we’re with them. If Hamas doesn’t live up to the terms of this agreement, we are with them,” Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz vowed.
Since Hamas and the PLO have made it clear that the terrorist attacks will continue until Israel is destroyed, the Trump administration has a very simple exit strategy from Phase 3.
All it has to do is, as National Security Adviser Walz said, let Israel go back to fighting once the hostages are free and the terrorists break the ceasefire. And that will abort the reconstruction.
If the Trump administration recognizes that the terrorists broke the ceasefire, then it’s over.
However, if the Trump administration pressures Israel to accept ceasefire violations by Islamic terrorists in Gaza without fighting back, as it is reportedly doing with Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, not only Israel, but America will be stuck with endless nation-building in Gaza.
And that will be a disaster.
The Biden ceasefire deal isn’t just a trap for Israel, it traps the Trump administration into the same old failed nation-building programs in the Middle East that have failed under Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden. In his first term, President Trump broke from 30 years of failed policies and oversaw the rise of a new pro-American alliance by dropping ‘Palestinian’ nation-building.
That legacy is now threatened by the Biden ceasefire deal which puts America back in the business of nation-building a terrorist state in Gaza and the West Bank, which drags us into a UN process in which billions of dollars will fall into the hands of terrorists and the alliances that his first term worked so hard to build up will be torn apart by disputes over the ‘Palestinians’.
Every time an administration gets into the business of ‘Palestinian’ nation-building, it comes away with nothing. That’s because the entire ‘Palestinian’ cause was invented by the USSR to undermine America and Israel, to spread terrorism, and to cause new wars. Trying to build a ‘Palestinian’ nation is even more doomed than trying to nation-build in Afghanistan.
Gaza is an even worse version of Afghanistan. And Phase 3 of the Biden ceasefire deal puts us right back to nation-building in another Islamic terrorist war zone.
That’s why it’s urgent that Phase 3 should not be allowed to happen.
Phase 3 is Afghanistan and Iraq all over again. Phase 3 is a trap for President Trump. Getting out of Phase 3 will determine if the Trump administration foreign policy succeeds.
The Trump administration should exit the Biden ceasefire deal as soon as possible. The sooner it gets out, the less likely Phase 3 will be to trap us into nation-building in Gaza. And the less likely it is we will have to send soldiers to join an “interim force” to police Gaza or send billions of dollars to ‘rebuild’ Gaza so that Hamas can start another war so we can rebuild it yet again.
This is not what Trump ran on. It’s not what Americans voted for. It’s not what they want.
People should not assume that it’s a done deal once it has been initiated. While the early phases are the most dangerous for Israelis because they lead to the mass release of Islamic terrorists and the Hamas takeover of Gaza, Phase 3 is the most dangerous for America.
The Trump administration needs to be out of the deal long before Phase 3. And the longer we stay in, the more commitments our negotiators will make and the harder it will be to get out.
Americans should not be complacent about assuming that the administration will pull the plug before Phase 3. Much will depend on whom President Trump is hearing from about the deal. Even once the deal is underway, it’s urgent to keep speaking out against nation-building in Gaza. Not one dollar or American life should be sacrificed for nation-building in Gaza.
America needs to rebuild itself, not Gaza. It needs to police its own streets, not Gaza streets. In his first year in office, President Trump vowed, we are “not nation-building again; we are killing terrorists.” America needs to stop nation-building in Gaza and start letting Israel kill terrorists.
Definitely. Thanks Daniel !!!
Hamas would be the beneficiary. They just kill any Gazans who oppose them.
There would be no Gazans opposing them, and for the record, they are all Palestinians, and would all celebrate anything they would accept as a clear victory together.
America should have nothing to do with these Hooded O Cowards to hide their faces like they do
Trumps First Big Mistake was collaborating with Biden.
The Second was Pressuring Israel instead of Hamas.
Netanyahu’s Big Mistake was accepting this Deal.
This Deal will end up costing more lives than it saves.
Instead rebuilding Gaza The estimated 50 billions should be given to Gazans to move to any Arab country.
If there were an Arab country that would accept them. If Hamas had breached the border between Egypt and Gaza on October 7th instead the border with Israel, the Egyptians would have wiped them out and there’d be no handwringing, no condemnations, no arrest warrants by the ICC, or campus protests by mentally retarded students at Ivy League schools.
No Arab country will have them, because all of them know that the Gazans (let’s not call them Palestinians) are violent revolutionaries who will try to seize power anywhere they go.
Yeah. They got kicked out of Kuwait for siding with Saddam Hussein, after Kuwait was liberated.
Any Arab or Muslim country. There was a report of “temporarily” relocating Gazans to Indonesia to allow for reconstruction. It really makes no sense to spend $50 Billion plus to rebuild (while Hamas rearms) only to see it all turned to rubble a few years hence. It would be less costly to make such relocation permanent (no doubt that’s what they’d fear) with a generous resettlement allowance. Then Israel could do something productive with Gaza.
Oh and weren’t they plighted to “regroup” in Yemen at one point? That fell through such that it may not have been real.
Im sorry ??? WHAT?????
The only thing to do with these people is to get rid of them, They are squatting on israeli land PERIOD
Not many ‘conservatives’ and ‘conservative’ news outlets, are excoriating this travesty of a ‘deal’ between Hamas and the US. I noticed many celebrating the release of three hostages, as though we should be thrilled that Hamas would release any hostages. I have great difficulty understanding how Trump could endorse such a weak ‘deal’, right after threatening “all hell to pay” if the hostages were not released prior to Jan 20. Many Trump sycophants are trying to portray this travesty of a ‘deal’ as a ‘feather in the cap’ for Trump, blithely ignoring the costly, reprehensible, and moronic, commitments the US is making. I think this is what is called ‘cognitive dissonance’. Trump has done many excellent things today, but this deal seems to be a drain part.
You are exactly right. The halo effect of defeating Democrats is too bright for a realistic examination.
Why is President Trump even friends with despicable Qatar-connected Witcoff who is rumored to have said “F shabbat” when making Bibi meet with him before the end of shabbat.
Witcoff is also rumored to have booked the imam for the inauguration.,
Why was Israel bullied in this deal (by Witcoff with the threat of a worse deal than Biden’s) but not Hamas? Why did President Trump post on Truth Social gloating that Witcoff successfully bullied Netanyahu?
Is this a personal grudge that showed no concern for the Hamas held hostages and all the people of the Jewish nation who are currently in a 7 front war?
What have we here? Something great for the J6ers and America but bad for Israel and diaspora Jews?
This deal will encourage anti-Semitic attacks on Jews wherever they live.
These are simply questions. I don’t have the answers.
Evil forces seem to be attempting to create a break between Mr Trump and Bibi. First Candace Owens aligns herself publicly with Tate and her new husband Mr Farmer who do not comprehend what sense it makes for the US and English forces to back Israel and further erroneous thinking. They don’t grok that should Hamas succeed in overrunning Israel their very next destination would be the USA!
and now we hear about this weirdness of Witcoff (beware those WEF’ers and the lot) worming his way into Trump;s trust.
All I can hope is that we are protected by wisdom and not going to be prey to these burrowing worms.
$50 billion to put drapes on the gate to Hell? Why not just confiscate and ship over Jill Biden’s tacky wardrobe and declare mission accomplished.
I am hopeful that Trump and Netanyahu have a better deal agreed once the peaceful handover from the communists to the conservatives takes place.
The establishment has been waiting for an opportunity to prevent him (Trump) taking over and now they need to protect their backsides.
Also, doesn’t the UN have a peace keeping force? lol lol lol lol lol
Nation building for islamists has been tried repeatedly and failed each and every time.
Do not waste a single penny on savages.
The fact is they are desert dwelling, low IQ and violent tribal people with a culture of hate, war and destruction. Nothing can change what’s written on their inbred genes.
They can never be civilized. They should be left to dwell in deserts they belong to and are adopted to live on.
Any “excuse” to give them any money-for-nothing will only lead to more terrorism.
There should be no Gaza at all and that land should be part of Israel and only populated by Israelis. The Fakestinians there now need to be removed, by any means necessary and the whole thing bulldozed into the Med. Israel can then build a beautiful resort city there on the shore of the Mediterranean that would be the envy of the world. But first they have to get rid of the Arab Muslims there falsely calling themselves Palestinians for a genocidal war on the Jews and accusing the Jews of the very genocide they aspire to against them.
Hamas will break the deal before the hostages are released, and Israel can then finish the job and return sovereignty of Gaza to its rightful owner. An eastern Mediterranean beach paradise can be built and all the Arabs who live in the area who are loyal to the Jerusalem government will be welcome to take part in the new prosperity. All the antisemites in the area will be welcome to find new places to live outside Israel.
PEOPLE POWER!
The People of Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, others, need to rise up against these Terrorist leaders who always bring destruction and death! It’s their backward religion that has been taken over by fanatics that leads to Jihad. When will it end?
Let’s recall that People Power took down Ferdinand Marcos, the Berlin Wall, and the Iron Curtain. It’s the best way. Look at all of them now. The only one is Putin dreaming of a new Soviet Empire. People Power is needed in Russia. Remember Boris Yeltsin? It can happen again!
“THE ONLY POWER THAT CAN KNOCK THE DAM DOWN… IS THE WATER BEHIND IT!” SC
The vile, evil and stupid Dhimmi-crats’ gleeful penchant for funding goose-stepping, genocidal Islamofascist, Muslim terrorists and Muslim supremacists is a given and is unsurprising, but, for everyone else, default operating posture and basic moral probity should be that not one penny of U.S. foreign aid goes to any Islamofascist and terrorist regime that is committed to waging — either directly, or indirectly — Islamic “holy war” belligerence against Israel and her citizens.
Note that during then-Senator Rubio’s confirmation hearing, moronic Senator, Shaheen, expressed her desire to see American taxpayers’ dollars committed to help “rebuild” Syria, despite the fact that it is now under the control of an al-Qaeda acolyte and Muslim terrorist who is committed to waging war against Israel.
The Dhimmi-crats’ stupidity, gullibility, dhimmitude, fecklessness and moral bankruptcy are contemptible and indefensible.
I am one of the unfortunate people who have to live in a state that foolishly elected that degenerate Senator, Shaheen. I write almost daily to harass her as much as possible about numerous misdeeds taking place in the U.S. knowing that my emails fall on deaf ears but enjoy doing it anyway. I’m sure her staff looks at my emails and states, oh, it is him again.
Also, why the hell should one penny of U.S. foreign aid be given to the Arab invaders from Arabia in Gaza or in the West Bank (the Fakestinians), until they renounce Islamic holy war, recognize Israel, purge all textbooks and prayerbooks of Jew-hate and Christian-hate, and, generally demonstrate via substantive and consistent deeds — not words and promises — that they are committed to living as a peaceful entity?
Absolutely! Thank you!
If there is potential for spending this sort of money, why not build an artificial island for the Gazans, preferably located in the Black Sea or the Caspian Sea rather than the Mediterranean? Of course, they will want to have the island (handy for offering hospitality to Houthi pirates) AND the whole of Israel, but if they are once located on the island, they can be offered a bit of reality orientation after that.
No American taxpayer aid to Gaza . Gaza is Israel’s problem child, not ours. Maybe just theaten for two days to bomb the shit out of Iran until all American hostages in Gaza are released by Hamas in good health and, if necessary, maybe throw a bomb or two just as a little demonstration of our resolve. High school boys like Blinken have no idea of how to deal with bullies. Netanyahu does. I have an idea that President Trump, the greatest of American negotiators I have ever seen, does too.
if america spends one cent on gaza it will be too much . all the civilians should be herded into the sinai , the jews spent 40 yrs. there so it wont hurt the fakestinians to do the same , they can live in tents or tunnels and let the arabs pay for any expense . then carpet bomb gaza to ash which will get rid of any terrorists still there . the remaing hostages will turn out to be dead unless trump pulls off some stunt and they hand them over post haste . but im not going to hold my breathe . we’re dealing with terrorists not humans . once its turned to ash it should be left in that state as a memorial to the wasted lives of the adf and the deaths of those on oct. 7 . actions have consequences and so far there hasnt been any for the murdering scumbags that the people of gaza are . the jews are hated for no reason , give the world a reason , one they and the arabs wont forget anytime soon . its a win , win .
he issue for Gaza’s population is both humanitarian and geopolitical. With over 2 million people living in a densely packed, war-torn region, the humanitarian crisis is severe—lack of food, medical supplies, clean water, and shelter have made life incredibly difficult. The refusal of Arab nations to absorb Gazan refugees stems from several considerations:
1. Political Considerations
Preserving the Palestinian Cause: Many Arab nations believe that accepting Gazan refugees on a large scale would weaken the Palestinian claim to their land and reduce international pressure on Israel to find a long-term political solution.
Avoiding a Precedent: If Arab nations permanently resettle Palestinian refugees, it may be seen as a de facto acceptance of Israel’s policies in the region, effectively normalizing displacement as a solution.
2. Security Concerns
Radicalization and Instability: Some Arab governments fear that absorbing large numbers of displaced Palestinians—many of whom have suffered under prolonged conflict—could bring internal security risks or political instability.
Historical Precedents: Past Palestinian refugee settlements in Jordan and Lebanon have led to significant internal conflicts, including the Lebanese Civil War and Black September in Jordan.
3. Economic and Social Strain
Limited Resources: Countries like Egypt and Lebanon are already struggling with economic difficulties and social unrest. Taking in large numbers of refugees would place additional pressure on their fragile economies.
Integration Challenges: Some governments worry about the long-term socio-political impact of integrating large Palestinian populations, especially in nations with existing refugee populations from Syria and other conflicts.
4. Diplomatic and International Relations
Pressure from Allies: Some Arab nations maintain relationships with Western countries or Israel and may avoid policies that could be seen as hostile or disruptive.
Border and Sovereignty Issues: Egypt, for instance, is cautious about opening its border with Gaza permanently, fearing long-term consequences, including potential Israeli policies pushing for permanent displacement.
Ultimately, Gaza’s population remains caught in a difficult situation—trapped in a region facing continuous conflict while neighboring countries refuse to provide large-scale refuge. This highlights the broader complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East.