Rumor has it that President Trump is thinking of a consortium of Arab states ruling Gaza.
That would mean the end of Israel.
But is it true? Which two Arab states agree with each other? Three? Four?
What do the Israelis say to the idea?
May the rumor be absolutely untrue!
I hadn’t heard about that. Maybe if the Arab states involved are the ones who entered the Abraham Accords, then it might work?
I doubt it.
Islam does not “permit” the tolerance of other religions. And the Islamic states lay claim to the territory - all of it - that Israel occupies. Peace with Israel as a temporary truce is allowed, but not permanent acceptance.
From today’s Gatestone article by Khaled Abu Toameh:
According to a recent report, the Trump administration is floating the idea of having four Arab states administer the Gaza Strip as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas. On June 26, the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported:
“Gaza hostilities will conclude within two weeks, ending conditions will encompass four Arab nations (including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates) to administer the Gaza Strip, replacing the murderous Hamas terrorist organization.”
Although the newspaper did not name the two other Arab countries that would take part in administering the Gaza Strip, there is speculation in the Arab world that one of them is Qatar, which has expressed readiness to help rebuild Gaza after the Hamas-Israel war ends.
Allowing Qatar to be part of that would be a disaster.
And it begs the question of why Trump is dealing with them as if they are not enemies.
Megyn Kelly said she heard that UAE and Egypt would administer Gaza. UAE is part of the Abraham Accords and Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel, so this just might work. Nothing has been confirmed yet. Trump is innovative and he thinks outside the box. Let’s give him time to work this out.
Trump’s remarkable naïveté about Islam.
Yes, it’s too bad he stopped short of finishing him off. If he expects Khomeini to have a “wake up call” and start making rational choices, he’s in lala land.
If the columnist is right about President Trump being baffled, Cogito.
Has he ever been baffled? Can anyone think of a time, a cause, a fact, a proposition, an event, a problem that has baffled him?
We can only hope to know in time the method in his apparent madness - saving the life of that monstrous ayatollah.
Right, Liz.
So it must be something else he has in mind. I hope we’ll soon know what that something is.
(I don’t want to believe he can be baffled.)
I’m not sure. He seems to be unaware of the vile nature of Islam, but, as you say, let’s see how all this rolls out.