Buying Entrance to the Corridors of Power

"The Palestinian people of Gaza have been sold out to a pack of thuggish terrorists who must be confronted, destroyed, taken on, eliminated, and removed from the scene."

Palestinian Ahmed Fouad Al-Khatib

 

"[Hamas better keep its promise to disarm or there will be trouble]."

"They will disarm or we will disarm them."

"I spoke to Hamas and I said, 'You're going to disarm, right?' 'Yes, sir. We're going to disarm'."

U.S. President Donald Trump 

 

The U.S.enforced ceasefire of last weekend succeeded in rescuing the last twenty living Israeli hostages from the purgatory Hamas kept them in; manacled, mistreated, malnourished and malevolently teased with the prospect of impending death. Earning U.S. President Trump the status of peacemaker that he so urgently stumped for in hopes of being honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize. There was a brief, hopeful period of silence; no bombs, no artillery a stand-down of troops in Gaza. Then the wait for the release of the 28 dead hostages held by Hamas, to complete phase one of the agreement for a ceasefire.

 

Violation of the ceasefire were swift in arriving. Alongside refusals of the terrorist group to allow itself to be disarmed, and given a brief period of time to sort things out, in Mr. Trump's judgement. Turning the ceasefire into a hudna, where Hamas swiftly turned on that proverbial dime, given past performances of the same, to once again brutally reassert its dominion over that 47% of the Strip not in Israeli control. The business of rearming, reassembling, recruiting, replanning all well in hand. Taqiyya lives!

 

The Israeli military campaign following the Hamas invasion of southern Israel in October 7, 2023 "is not over", emphasizes Prime Minister Netanyahu even while President Trump insists that the Gaza war is over, and as a result of his personal intervention "the guns are silent in a region that will live in peace for all eternity". This, while Hamas death squads execute civilians in Gaza, thanks to Trump's green light "for a period time" to deal with "gangs" causing trouble in the enclave. 

 

Palestinian terrorists stand guard on the day that hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, are handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as part of a ceasefire and hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed

 

The very Palestinian women and girls that Hamas public relations portrayed as collateral victims of the IDF's campaign to obliterate Hamas, snuggling itself deep within the civilian population, are now in danger of their lives by Hamas execution, charged with "collaborating" with Israel. Public executions to both entertain the populace and to convince them that defying Hamas and opposing its rule has consequences they would do well to avoid.

 

Video shows Hamas armed men dragging seven men into a circle of people in Gaza City, forcing them to their knees and executing them.  From Social Media/Reuters

 

Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are mutually agreed; no one can force them to hand over their weapons to anyone, much less Israel or the U.S. The prerequisite before phase two is to begin which includes the $60-billion reconstruction of Gaza. 

 

Hamas has demands of its own; among them that the interim administration hire 40,000 Hamas employees (UNRWA  redux). And wait: Hamas operatives, demands Hamas spokesman Basem Naim, must be integrated into a post-transition Palestinian state. "Before that, no one has the right to deny us the right to resist the occupation by all means." It seems the ceasefire agreement signed by all inducted by Mr. Trump into a force for peace 'in their time' has left the adversary of peace confused over its role in this theatre of the absurd. 

 

An agreement whose implications have left a clear winner -- and it's not necessarily Israel whose determination to completely wipe out Hamas  terrorism has been truncated to be left unfinished in the opinion of its friends and supporters, none of whom have ever had to cope valiantly over a 80-year period with one bloodily lethal challenge after another to its existence. While claiming to 'love' Israel, and having only its best interests at heart, Donald Trump has favoured the very cunningly generous Muslim Brotherhood-loving, Hamas-supporting, Iran-friendly, Qatar.

 

That Qatar -- the one whose oil wealth has given it extraordinary clout through its suborning of Western values while generously handing out millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions to universities, political parties, and social groups in democracies whose capitalist instincts never shy away from pricey gifts by foreign nations with discreetly cloaked agendas of influence while shielding aspirational approach to worming Islamism into the fabric of societies steeped in oblivious unconcern -- becomes the major beneficiary.

 

To grasp the importance of Israel’s unprecedented September attack on Hamas negotiators in Doha, just look at President Trump’s decision to sign an executive order guaranteeing Qatar’s security — a startling step for a non-NATO ally.  AOL

 

Israel, in planning to assassinate the very leaders of Hamas residing in Qatar, protected by Qatar, that Qatar whose universally influential news media Al Jazeera has become the mouthpiece and publicity generator for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, has offended an American president whose family businesses owe much to their very integrated business dealings with that country, generous in its penchant for scattering financial opportunities to those willing to court criticism should anyone notice the odour of corruption.

 

Following Israel's failed attempt in ridding the world of the Hamas politboro in Qatar, President Trump featured his administration's displeasure by forcing Israel to apologize to the Emir of Qatar, and signed an executive order signally that an armed attack on Qatar (who now would ever think of attacking Qatar but Israel in another bid to eliminate the cancer that keeps metastasizing?) would be seen as "a threat to the peace and security of the United States". How so? Through irritating elite political insiders engaged in robust and profitable business deals with affable Qatar.

 

Back during his previous administration, President Donald Trump referred to Qatar as a terrorist supporter "at the highest level". When Qatar signed a $23-billion deal to buy American F-15 fighter jets, that all changed. What hasn't changed, however is Qatar's support of Islamist terrorist groups throughout the Middle East, while Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates shun the Muslim Brotherhood and abhor Hamas terrorism.

 

US WAR SECRETARY Pete Hegseth meets with Qatari Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the Pentagon earlier this month. 

(photo credit: KEN CEDENO/REUTERS)