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Lazar Berman, a well-known Israeli journalist, claims that Netanyahu has promised Trump to end the war in Gaza two weeks after the ceasefire with Iran begins. What’s more, Netanyahu has apparently agreed to Gaza being run in the foreseeable future by four Arab states. And there are many other troubling aspects of the postwar plan that can be found here: “Report: Netanyahu agreed to end Gaza war within two weeks after US strike on Iran,” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, June 26, 2025:
After the US strike on Iran earlier this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump agreed on a rapid end to the war in Gaza and expansion of the Abraham Accords, Israel Hayom reports, citing “a source familiar with the conversation.”
According to the outlet, Trump and Netanyahu agreed in a phone call that the war in Gaza would end within two weeks. Four Arab states, including the UAE and Egypt, would jointly govern the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas. The terror group’s leadership would be exiled, and all hostages would be released.
However, Arab allies have repeatedly asserted that they will not take part in the postwar rehabilitation of Gaza absent Israeli acquiescence to the Palestinian Authority gaining a foothold in Gaza as part of a pathway to a future two-state solution, but Netanyahu has flatly rejected any PA role in the Strip.
Moreover, Hamas’s leaders have also long rejected demands to go into exile….
Gazans who wish to emigrate would be absorbed by several unnamed countries, says the report.
Saudi Arabia and Syria would establish diplomatic ties with Israel, and other Arab and Muslim countries would follow suit.
Israel, for its part, would express its support for a future two-state solution, conditioned on reforms made by the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile, the leaders agreed that Washington will recognize Israeli sovereignty in some parts of the West Bank….
If Israel plans to accept that so-called “two-state solution,” that would be terrible. Such a state would be built on land surrendered by Israel. It would essentially require Israel to yield almost all of the territory in Judea and Samaria that it won in the Six-Day War, likely leaving Israel with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, and possibly stripped — it’s unclear what parts of Judea and Samaria Israel would be allowed to retain under this plan — of its control of the Jordan Valley, so essential to prevent invaders from the east from cutting Israel in two. Furthermore, Netanyahu has flatly ruled out any role by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, while the Arabs refuse to take control in Gaza without participation by the PA.
It is difficult to believe that Netanyahu would have agreed to a “two-state solution” that he has always opposed. Perhaps he is counting on Hamas leaders refusing to leave Gaza, or on the Palestinian Authority making outrageous demands, such as having all of Judea and Samaria included in their new “state,” with Jerusalem as its capital, or claiming the right to continue their “Pay-For-Slay” program that rewards past and incentivizes future terrorism, so as to get him off the hook. And nothing is said in this plan about the need for the complete demilitarization of the state of “Palestine.”
I would be amazed If this plan for a “two-state solution” ever comes to pass. 80% of Israeli Jews now are opposed to a “two-state solution.” After the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, they are no longer prepared to trade “land for peace.” They recognize that any Palestinian state will become a center for attacks on Israel. The jihad imperative remains. The Jewish state must not be allowed to exist on land that, because it was once possessed by the Muslim Arabs, must forever belong to Dar al-Islam. It is not treaties that will keep Israel safe from major assault, but, rather, the strategy of deterrence. Israel has to remain overwhelmingly stronger than its Arab enemies so as to keep the peace. Deterrence kept the Western world safe from Soviet aggression during the Cold War; deterrence is what will now keep the peace between Israel and the Muslim Arabs.