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President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza is stuck in first gear, and while a tenuous ceasefire is holding, none of the long-term underlying issues are close to resolution.
Per “phase one” of the agreement, Israel has retreated to a security buffer zone comprising about half of Gaza, leaving Hamas to brutally reassert itself in a rump state, where it is killing opponents, trying to rearm and vowing to carry out another bloody terror attack on Israel as soon as it can.
The next phase of the process — in which Hamas is supposed to disarm and turn power over to an unnamed group of Palestinian technocrats — is stalled, and it’s unclear how or when it will begin, or who will enforce it.
Meanwhile, Hamas and its estimated 25,000 militants continue to fire on Israeli forces, clearly itching to provoke Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a major response that the terror group can use as fodder for its propaganda war.
The Gaza powder keg could reignite at any time.
Bibi is clearly eager to finish the job: destroy Hamas’ ability to terrorize Israel. At the same time, he wants to further degrade Iran’s capacity to wage war and spread regional chaos through its proxies.
Yet he won’t be in power forever; he could well be nearing the end of his career. Finishing off Hamas and securing Israel against the Iranian threat would be the crowning achievement of his legacy.
As for the White House, it wants the region to remain as quiet as possible while Trump attends to Venezuela, Ukraine and the looming China threat.
The president is also working to expand the Abraham Accords, which will be impossible if war resumes.
Still, Trump has made it clear that he’ll back Bibi if the prime minister concludes Israel’s only way to topple Hamas is by force.
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Israeli elections must take place by October, though they may come much sooner if, as expected, the government fails to pass the budget in March.
This deadline could prove decisive to the future of Hamas if Bibi intends to leave office with the Gaza threat neutralized.
It’s time for nations that signed on to the peace plan to step up if they want that peace to hold.
It’s one thing to approve of removing Hamas in theory, and another to commit to doing it.
Arabs who perpetuated the Palestinian crisis for the past 75 years by keeping them in permanent refugee status have a responsibility now to deal with the situation they helped to create.
Removing Hamas will allow the international community to begin to rebuild Gaza and put Palestinians on the road to prosperity and normalcy. Letting the terrorists remain in power will only extend the misery.