Once it was clear that its attacks on Oct 7 wouldn’t lead to the conquest and destruction of Israel (especially once Hezbollah refused to pull the trigger and Iran hung before instead of launching the massive rocket barrage that would have followed had it looked like its Jihadists might be winning), Hamas fell back and used the hostages and more importantly, worldwide propaganda, as a shield to prevent Israel from finishing it off.
Hamas had two objectives in the negotiations.
- Leverage the handful of hostages for the mass release of Islamic terrorists to nail down the narrative that it did more than survive, it won.
The disastrous ‘peace deal’ accomplishes that, unleashing large numbers of some of the worst monsters.
But, more importantly,
- That Israel would not be able to go back in and attack it.
Hamas obviously accomplished its first objective. The question of whether it accomplished the second objective is still up in the air. The Blair-Witkoff-Kushner peace plan is a Qatari plot to safeguard a Hamas state (under the façade of dismantling it) by building a political infrastructure that it can operate behind, by bringing in foreign ‘peacekeeping’ troops sympathetic to Hamas to do for it what the UN’s peacekeeping troops did for Hezbollah: allow it to attack Israel and then hide behind the ‘peacekeepers’ to prevent any Israeli retaliation.
The Qataris and their useful idiots did their best to create such a wall for Hamas in its plan. But it’s up to us if that plan succeeds.
The Gaza plan depends on the United States to maintain it. The best position for the Trump administration to take, is to ‘take the win’ with the hostages, take the victory tour and then stop being involved.
Nation building is a bad idea in general. It’s a worse idea in Gaza. And still a worse idea using blueprints from the state sponsor of Hamas meant to protect it.
As I’ve been saying for two years now, the best thing the U.S. can do in Gaza is not be involved. The only people who disagrees are left-wing wokes and right-wing wokes who are now very excited about recognizing a ‘Palestinian’ state. The more we get dragged into nation-building, the more we have to lose.