The Gaza Gambit: Will The Islamofascists of Hamas Finally Keep Their Word?

In a dramatic flourish befitting his larger-than-life persona, President Trump unveiled his ambitious 20-point peace plan for the Israeli-Hamas war on October 3rd from the White House Rose Garden. Flanked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a cadre of international envoys, Trump declared it a “monumental deal to end the bloodshed once and for all,” outlining an immediate ceasefire, the release of all remaining Israeli hostages (both alive and not), and a pathway to Palestinian self-governance—sans the terror apparatus that has plagued the region for decades.The plan’s highlights include a hostage-prisoner exchange, Hamas’s complete disarmament with amnesty for compliant militants, phased Israeli withdrawals from Gaza, and economic incentives to rebuild the Gaza Strip under international oversight. No Gazan would be forcibly displaced, Trump emphasized, but those yearning for peace could emigrate freely.Hamas, in a calculated display of partial compliance, has agreed to release the hostages (both alive and not) and accept a new governing body in Gaza to oversee reconstruction and daily affairs. Yet, true to form, they’re hedging on the critical disarmament clause, insisting on “phased implementation” and “security guarantees”—classic weasel words that scream delay and deception from these perennial saboteurs of peace.On the surface, it’s a masterstroke: a blueprint for coexistence that sidesteps the failed two-state fantasies of yesteryear. Yet, as history’s grim ledger reminds us, deals with Islamofascist outfits like Hamas, Hezbollah, and their forebears in the PLO—puppeteered by the fanatical Iranian mullahs—have invariably crumbled into dust, replaced by rivers of Jewish blood. These groups, cloaked in the garb of resistance but animated by jihadist venom, have a track record of duplicity so egregious it borders on the pathological.Time and time again, they’ve inked agreements only to shred them at the first whiff of vulnerability, resuming their orgy of rockets, suicide bombings, and tribal savagery. Trump’s plan may gleam with optimism, but without ironclad enforcement—and severe consequences for transgressions, it’s just another invitation for these terror mongers to reload and re-aim—especially when they dangle hostage releases like bait while clutching their weapons like lifelines.Let’s rewind to the PLO’s sordid saga, the original sin of Palestinian “diplomacy.” In 1993, under the Oslo Accords, Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization—then the darling of far-Left Western gullibility—shook hands with Israel in a ceremony on the White House lawn, pledging mutual recognition and an end to violence. Israel ceded land, armed Arafat’s forces, and bent over backward for peace.What did the PLO deliver? A grotesque betrayal: the Second Intifada of 2000, a five-year frenzy of stabbings, shootings, and bus bombings that claimed over 1,000 Israeli lives. Arafat, that Nobel Peace Prize fraud, pocketed concessions while his thugs glorified “martyrs” who targeted Jewish schoolchildren. The accords, hailed as a breakthrough, were nothing but a Trojan horse for escalation, proving the PLO’s word as worthless. Even gestures like prisoner swaps and interim governance bodies—echoing Hamas’s latest nod to a new Gaza authority—served only as smokescreens for the inevitable bloodletting.Enter Hamas, the PLO’s more rabid spawn, a Sunni jihadist hydra sworn to Israel’s annihilation in its genocidal charter. Since wresting Gaza from Arafat’s heirs in 2007, Hamas has orchestrated at least six major ceasefire pacts with Israel—each a cynical interlude for rearming.Take 2008’s Operation Cast Lead truce, brokered by Egypt: Hamas pledged calm in exchange for eased blockades. Within months, they barraged southern Israel with Qassam rockets, provoking the very retaliation they now wail about. Fast-forward to 2012’s Pillar of Defense ceasefire: another Egyptian-mediated lull, shattered by Hamas’s relentless barrages, killing civilians and shattering any illusion of goodwill.The pattern repeated in 2014’s Protective Edge, where Hamas violated every humanitarian pause—firing rockets even during their own-proposed lulls—turning Gaza into a launchpad for terror. By 2019 and 2021, these “hudnas” (temporary truces in Islamist parlance) were mere facades, allowing Hamas to stockpile Iranian Grad missiles while feigning restraint. The October 7, 2023, massacre—1,200 slaughtered, 250 kidnapped, and too many raped to count—was the fruit of that deception, a barbaric eruption that exposed Hamas not as a liberation movement, but as a death cult masquerading as one.Now, with hostages as their human shields and a vague promise of a post-Hamas governing body, they’re playing the same game: concede the symbolic to hoard the substantive, all while dragging feet on disarmament that would neuter their jihadist core.Hezbollah, ...