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As the great Robert Spencer summed up the original announcement of a ‘ceasefire’ ,by quoting Jeremiah, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.”
Three months later there’s still no peace, but in the typical fashion of the ‘peace process’ involving terrorists, the process is moving anyway with the announcement of various boards including a Board of Peace potentially set to include Turkey’s Islamist dictator Erdogan and Qatar, both state sponsors of Hamas, despite protests from the Israeli government.
There’s an ‘executive board’ featuring Steven Witkoff, Jared Kushner, former UK PM Tony Blair, and World Bank President Ajay Banga among others. There’s a ‘technocratic’ committee that’s just the PLO in a suit and a Gaza Executive Board that includes Turkey’s Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan who praised the leader of Hamas, a Qatari diplomat, and Sigrid Kaag, a former Dutch UN official married to a former PLO ambassador to Switzerland opposed to the Israeli government.
The entire thing is a farce because the areas that the new Gaza Board is supposed to control is currently controlled by Hamas,
And Hamas is not going to cede power to anyone except itself. So the only way that this plays out is that, in the most likely scenario, the new ‘administration’ is (much like UNRWA) going to be a new face worn by Hamas. Since the system includes Hamas state sponsors like Turkey and Qatar, that is going to be the state of play. China and Russia had been hosting Hamas-PLO negotiations and the PLO ‘technocrats’ are going to put a show of running things with Hamas actually running things.
Hamas has obviously not disarmed and it’s been pretty clear that it won’t disarm unless it’s to an army it controls. That means Qatar has to pull this bait and switch the way that it did in Afghanistan. And we’ve apparently learned nothing from it.
Meanwhile Witkoff and his useful idiots are throwing out more empty blather and acting like they accomplished something beyond acting as cutouts for Hamas and the allies of Hamas.
If you have any doubt about this being the same exact peace process farce that we got under Clinton, Bush, Obama, etc, you can hear it from Witkoff directly.
Speaking with journalists, Witkoff addressed Israel Hayom questions regarding Gaza’s future. Asked whether Gaza’s reconstruction was contingent on Hamas’ disarmament, he replied: “I think they will disarm. The president was not afraid to allow Jared and me to meet Hamas. We met them, and that was the key to the deal.”
According to Witkoff, a meeting held in Sharm el-Sheikh with Hamas marked a turning point. “That meeting was, in my view, the key to the deal because it showed that we adopted direct negotiations. It was the breakthrough in the 20-point peace plan, and we may need to meet them again. We are not threatened by meeting them. Communication is the most important thing.”
Asked by Israel Hayom about leverage over Hamas, Witkoff argued that the group could be persuaded that disarmament was in its own interest. “I think we can show Hamas that disarmament is the right thing for long-term peace and for the future. And the Gaza reconstruction plan, under President Trump’s oversight, is an unbelievable plan. Gaza is meant to become an amazing place.”
Hamas is going to disarm. Maybe. And Witkoff will meet with Hamas as many times as it takes to convince Hamas that Gaza will be an awesome place.
These are the kinds of quotes coming out of this effort.
“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.”
A senior US official told Axios, “This is our show, not his show,” referring to Netanyahu. The official added, “We managed to do things in Gaza in recent months nobody thought was possible, and we are going to continue moving.”
The official said stressed, “If he wants us to deal with Gaza, it will have to be our way. We worked over him. Let him focus on Iran and let us deal with Gaza. We are not going to argue with him. He will do his politics and we will keep moving forward with our plan. He can’t really go against us.”
In his opinion, the US is “doing him a favor.”
“If this fails he can say, ‘I told you so.’ We know that if it succeeds he will claim credit,” the official added to Axios. “Nobody in Israel believed we will get this far – but we managed to do it.”
Do what? Name people to imaginary positions ruling over a territory run by terrorists while acting like they can turn it around by sinking more money into it and remaining convinced that the terrorists will come around?
If Team Witkoff thinks that’s incredible, wait till they discover what the geniuses before them managed in Afghanistan. At a mere cost of a trillion or two and a whole lot of American lives.
I’ve been saying this from Day 1, we need to get out and stay out before we duplicate the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan because the only thing that’s been proven so far is that nothing has been learned from anything since 9/11.
The naïveté is astounding!
It’s worse than naïveté sorry to say. It is a devilish inroad and a type of insane distortion. Witkoff has a firm and intelligent looking jawline, but his eyes always have looked blank to me. His real estate acumen clearly does not translate into political know-how and wisdom. Hamas should have been destroyed by Israel weeks ago. Turkey and Qatar have too much input in this so-called “peace process.”
Witless’ real estate acumen turned him into a Qatari stooge.
Witkoff got a PhD in Profanity and a M.M. in Appeasement Arts
His B.A. was in Delusiinal Negotiating. He attended the Univ of Qatar.
Actually I don’t think they’re naive. I think they’re lying. The rebuild of Gaza into every kind of luxuries for terrorists and their supporters will allow lots of millions in kickbacks and profits for builders. Witkoff Trump family and Kushner are builders. . They are going to make a fortune! US taxpayers may pay the bill but who cares about that, except us.
Daniel, you nailed this from Day 1, writing an exhaustive piece that went line-by-line as to how this would, more or less, unfold, all based on the history of the region and knowledge of how Islamic terror rolls. And now we see it coming to pass. That Trump puts his trust in these two idiots is beyond me. How I wish I could have confidence in Trump, but when it comes to the ME, he proves time and again that he has no clue, is woefully uninformed, seems to have blinders on, puts idiots into positions of authority, is seriously compromised due to his investments in places like Qatar which points to him being clueless and round and round it goes. Is there no one in American leadership who grasps this??? Who understands the nature of Islam??? Who is willing to speak the truth. Often, Loudly. Boldly. And with influence. Is there no one??? (Apparently not.)
The threat to Israel of this plan may be existential, But let’s say Israel can manage it, This board etc shows not only disrespect for Israel, her sovereignty, her sacrifice, the victims of 10/7 and hostages, but also zero spiritual awareness (holy land of Judaism & Christians), blindness to Jewish history, the archeological fund support, and a 100% absence of knowing right versus wrong., and likely all for profit. Then bragging about it loudly!
Witcooff is rightly called Kapo by many. But this is squarely on Trump .
Maybe if he had gotten his Nobel prize he would have just gone away before doing this harm.
The “Gaza Board of Peace” puts Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” in mind. Both are about lies and terror. Witkoff and Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, are not only useful idiots, but a pair made-to-order for hamas. Disgraceful!
Such billionaires (rich oligarchs) have been ruining their countries since Ancient Greece and Rome (and probably other countries also, whose literature [if any] I haven’t read). A definite syndrome, proven throughout history. The outliers are cases where a rich Oligarch helped his country.
Clusterfuck of the century. Trump also just added Mark Carney to his “Board of Peace” on the same day Carney negotiated deals with China to create an anti-American multilateral Canada-China-Whoever “New World Order” (Carney’s literal words). Carney is partnering with China to spite and split from America’s orbit and US president Trump adds Carney to his “board”. Why?!? Trump’s Board of Peace will soon be more accurately renamed by Hamas as Bored of Peace as it resumes the killing cycle.
The hearts and minds approach does not work on people with neither.
Global 3D chess – President Trump. PM Bibi Netanyahu got the live hostages released. The sword of Damocles is swinging over hamass . Israel has not stood down. They are on standby, One miscreant move by hamass, they will go in and blow them to smithereens. Vile satanic honiac pekkerhead hamass has been allowed to regroup and rebuild, but with the head of the snake, Iran despots in peril, is part of this untimed Global 3D chess moves.
Let us not forget this Bible passage: 1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
President Trump has Biblical advisers and all this is taken into account in this Global 3D chess.
One thing is for certain, Gaza will be built by global investors to be a sea side resort and high tech area. But of course that outcome is too hard to fathom for people who don’t want to get their hopes up because of all the disappointments. To that I say, learn the ways of entrepreneurs from Biblical times till now and how we stay focused on our goals. Blather along the way is just the monkeys in the jungle.
You know what I say to naysayers if I say anything at all? “Here’s a banana, go run up a tree”.
You know what naysayers say to me if they say anything at all? “woo hoo hoo” like monkeys do.
What a sick joke. Hah!
These two corrupt ‘men’ are Trump’s court jesters…….and liars.
I am no face reader; but their facial expressions show they know they are lying, with, it can be assumed,Trump’s blessing. He hedges his bets. He makes his promises to Israel‘s, and America’s, enemies. All those lying smiling enemies. He approves what Vance says. Why? That’s what we want to understand.
Witkoff, Kushner & Co. are Trump’s steam rollers; but are they steamrolling the bad guys or the good guys?
The only way to reconcile this doubt of intention is to conclude that American foundational interests and moral values have been compromised. Et tu, Donald?
It appears that you and your emissaries are seriously futzing around with the wrong crowd.
Since that bullet wizzed by your ear, you have become vulnerable. It’s not easy to be righteous, to act out of uncompromising personal moral responsibility. You’ve been compromising what cannot be compromised. Bad, bad plan.
And no mention of Hamas-murdered on 10/7 then kidnapped Israeli Ran Gvili, whose body is still held in Gaza, and whose remains must be returned to Israel as an ‘agreed’ (another ‘Hah!) precondition in order to continue with this fake ferkaktered ‘peace’s ( think ensuring ‘more war’) ‘phasing’ (think farcical ‘fazing’).
Ditto to every word you said.
Daniel,
You are absolutely correct. I have been saying it since I can remember. Peace is byproduct of victory
where the victor imposes its will on the defeated. No victory no peace. i.e. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon,
Ukraine and many more.
Witkoff is either a dreamer or clueless idiot in the packet of Qatar. Who’s not permitted to allow Israel to be the victor over its Arab enemies.. Unfortunately Trump somehow is buying Witkoff’s utopian dream..
And more than Witkoff. There are countless others in the administration and/or who seem to have his ear that do not belong anywhere near the levers of power. Among them, Tucker Carlson. Why was he at the WH two times in the past two weeks? Then there’s his bro working for Vance. And then there’s Vance. And then there just about everyone else we see in the West, have no clue and apparently no curiosity to understand the nature of Islam.
Sometimes I wonder if the assassination attempt on Trump’s life really changed him with respect to his views on life and death and it’s impacting his thinking on a global scale. I also wonder if he’s just getting too old. Who knows? All I know is this pattern of bluster and threat with no follow through is not only disappointing, embarrassing, and weak, it’s dangerous.
Are Witkoff and Kushner just hutzpa amateur idiots with little intellect?
Or are they revenge-driven sabeteurs who would bring dangers upon Israel because their fragile egos got bruised when Bibi didn’t conduct the war as they requested?
These two 60-Minutes Backstabbersalready tried throwing Bibi under the bus, but wow, the morons didn’t expect it to be seen as throwing all of Iarael under the bus – and their reputation is dirt in Israel ever since.
Perhaps their broken promises to Israel about keeping Turkey, Qatar and Egypt out of the “peace board” was a planned lie – the middle finger – directed as Israel, as the fools are believing that Hamas wants peace in the world.
FAILING ISRAEL
NOW FAILING IRAN TOO
FAILING TRUMP’S AGENDA AND LEGACY
YOURE FIRED WITKOFF AND KUSHNER!!!!!
There is nothing like making peace between sheep and wolves like having a peace board including wolves. Next could be a dinner together with a smorgaspeaceboard menu.