The Gaza plan championed by the Trump administration is on the verge of being hijacked – not by Israel, but by the very states that have spent years arming, financing, and glorifying Hamas. At the Doha Forum, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey dispensed with diplomatic subtleties and openly demanded changes that would render the entire plan meaningless. Their proposed “revisions” would force an Israeli withdrawal before Hamas disarms, insert an international force that refuses to confront Hamas, and hard-wire Hamas’s continued rule into the future of Gaza.
The astonishing part is not that Qatar and Turkey are attempting this maneuver – it is that Washington is allowing it. The US is ignoring the plainly anti-Western ideological motives of its supposed partners, and in doing so, it is sleepwalking into a strategic catastrophe.
The speeches delivered in Doha could not have been more transparent. Qatar’s prime minister announced that mediators must “force the next phase” of the plan and insisted a ceasefire “cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces.” Egypt’s foreign minister echoed the line, accusing Israel of breaking the ceasefire and demanding that an International Stabilization Force deploy immediately – not to restrain Hamas, but to restrain Israel. Both stressed that the ISF should deploy on the Israeli side of the “yellow line.” (Read More)
