"This is a major milestone in the implementation of the Trump 20-Point Plan. The agreement will be carried out in carefully structured phases. As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw, and the International Stabilization Force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza being safe for its residents and its neighbors.
One year ago there was a violent raging war, humanitarian crisis and hostages kept in brutal captivity. We have made historic progress and there is still much work to do.... Under this agreement, Gaza will finally be in the hands of a new Palestinian government that serves its PEOPLE.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL ON THIS AMAZING DEVELOPMENT, THAT EVERYBODY SAID COULD NEVER BE ACHIEVED!"
Here's the NYT coverage of the story: "Trump Claims Deal Is Reached to Disarm Hamas in Gaza" (gift link).
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The Fat Lady’s gonna have to sing really loudly.
Hopefully lasts longer than the agreement he signed 'ending' the conflict with Iran.
Somewhere around 1970 or so my father gave me the benefit of his great wisdom and told me that the Russian people are good it's just that their government is bad.
Hope springs eternal! And I'm not being ironical - it's kind of a cornerstone of not just Trump's but US foreign policy, ISTM, realpolitik and all. Sometimes it works, more or less, like the Begin-Sadat summit, and the Abraham Accords. But the Middle East is a friggin' tough nut.
Wouldn't it be great, though, if the "Palestinians" really did only want peace and prosperity?
The United States Institute for Peace was established in Washington DC in 1984. The building headquarters were completed in 2011. The Board of Peace for Gaza is also HQed in the USIP.
Trump keeps finding these entities Congress created that have been dormant or repurposed. That’s a fascinating angle to Trump 47. The recent first hearing in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court that has been fully staffed for 30 years but never used until last week is another of those.
Trump has a businessman’s faith in term sheets and MOUs. Lawyers know that “the devil is in the details” is more than a cute phrase. But unlike the media, I am hoping for the best.
These announcements just seem to be invitations to whomever out there hates Trump or the US or Israel enough to commit acts of terrorism in the name of Gaza, preferably near Gaza, so a claim can be made of no deal.
While I am hopeful, Islam will never allow peace with Israel, It's in that little book of theirs.
Mark said...
Hopefully lasts longer than the agreement he signed 'ending' the conflict with Iran.
LOL.
These people are just enemies of the United States and everything our country stands for.
They will never stop until they tear our country down by any means possible.
yes asymmetry- Trump knows these agreements are rickety at best but announces them with hope. He’s a Republican so does not get the good intentions discount the way Fauci or any of the media endorsed party get when they manipulate…
The problem is Trump likely hasn't killed enough of the violent animals to make this work.
He is too kind a person.
I’m praying for the success of this peace initiative and for the war, but I’m increasingly skeptical about Trump’s future. The war, gas and grocery prices are crippling him on the domestic front. That $1.99/gal. gas Trump supporters kept predicting doesn’t look likely to happen in time for the Midterms, and the war is not concluding. The Dems are likely to take the House, and Trump is likely to become the lamest of ducks. He might even be facing another impeachment. Of course, Trump has a remarkable ability to rise up from the dead. Can he do it again?
You gotta give Trump credit, the man thinks big, and really believes we can all just get along. Some may say that's ridiculous considering his decision to attack Iran, but I think it underscores how bad the situation was. Military action was a last resort, and even now he holds on to the hope of peace. It's naive IMHO, but I'll give him credit for trying.
"Hopefully lasts longer than the agreement he signed 'ending' the conflict with Iran."
Yes, it's too bad the Iranian government is a pack of duplicitous shit weasels.
it’s nit for nothin- the carrot and stick method isn’t perfect but tried and true
Original Mike, is Hamas any different?
Seems like Trump is going to get played here as well.
"Seems like Trump is going to get played here as well."
It's not "getting played" to try for peace if you keep your guard up while doing so. But, yeah, Hamas is another lying pack of shit weasels, so I don't expect success.
Trump gets too far out in front of actual, completed deals -- just say the peace process is proceeding and leave it at that. But he can't seem to do that.
Mark said...
Original Mike, is Hamas any different?
Seems like Trump is going to get played here as well.
Iran and Hamas only have one hope at this point.
They can lie and stall and hope their democrat traitor allies win the midterms and bail them out.
I wish he would quit declaring 'deals are done' when he's dealing with lying Islamic terrorist groups. Hamas is not going to disarm until they are dead. Period. Everyone knows this except young people protesting in our streets or running for office as Democrats.
It's a nice plan. I hope it works out. But it won't as long as Hamas is a functioning operation in Gaza. A thing is what it is.
Peace for Our Time...
"Iran and Hamas only have one hope at this point.
They can lie and stall and hope their democrat traitor allies win the midterms and bail them out."
That is their plan.
Someone should tell Trump that the maxim is “under promise and over deliver”, not “over promise and under deliver”.
At this point I just completely ignore his statements because history shows they have no basis in reality.
Trump is delusional.
The old guys form a Board of Peace, but the young guys quickly get bored of peace.
A leopard cannot change its spots.
Trump has made remarkable progress toward peace in the ME. Mainly it's just the Iranian regime and their proxies who remain opposed. The Iranians have been severely disabled, but they're still beatin' back. We'll have to keep beatin' until they quit that, I guess.
Unfortunately, Iran is a proxy of China and Russia.
Achilles has nothing more than the same tired talking points now that all his predictions about Iran and China have been proven to be delusion.
Biden’s people are apologizing to their base for supporting this genocide, and Trump may be sincere, look what being the orange monkey to Bibi’s organ grinder has gotten him:
Trump is cooked
I don’t know the details, so this is a guess, and time will tell, but my guess is that Israeli settlers will end up living in all of Gaza with the exception of some small ghettos or maybe concentration camps that are called something else.
The liberals are so against world peace.
Both the pro Hamas left and the neocon right are angry this morning. Lol
"How dare the President pause the Iran War so the American people could have a respite from the high prices! We need moar War!!!"
Cheerlead the Iranian war all you want, but it has destroyed Trump’s popularity. Israel has bragged about dragging us into this war that Bibi has said that he has wanted for 47 years, Rubio has admitted this. What happened 47 years ago? A popular revolution threw out Mossad’s puppet, the Shah and Iran took back control of their own oil stolen from them by an MI6,CIA, Mossad coup in 1953. BBC did a documentary on it, “A Very British Coup. Go ahead and google this stuff, or is it our patriotic duty as free Americans to believe lies?
As for who is crazy, Iran is hitting military targets, and playing out their hand using game theory, Israel blew up a city block and killed 300 people to kill a single Iranian official. The US and Israel have twice now in the past year killed negotiators during negotiations. I was as big a Trump supporter as you could find on this site, but in the three elections where I voted for him, he never said anything about starting or continuing wars.
Prof Althouse said: "Here's the NYT coverage of the story: "Trump Claims Deal Is Reached to Disarm Hamas in Gaza" (gift link)."
NYT is slipping. They omitted "without evidence."
By what logical process does one conclude giving any more power to Democrats who are quickly being taken over by Islamo-Marxists is going to lower prices and pacify our enemies?
Do you know who hates America? Do you know who actually never really loved America?
Shit-pistons like Meade and Achilles who think its totally cool when the president starts an unconstitutional FOREVER WAR without a vote from Congress.
I prefer an "America" that follows the "Constitution." We should send Meade and Achilles to Somalia.
FIFY
Wince said...
By what logical process does one conclude giving any more power to **Trump ** who is quickly being taken over by **NeoCons and AIPAC** is going to lower prices and pacify our enemies?
The Islamic Male Islamic supremacist gang of thugs need to go. All of them.
DEAD.
Free the people of Iran. Death to the cancer of the ME
Achilles- if they do win the midterms how would the democrats bail out Iran and Hamas if it wanted to? Seems that Trump has all the power either way.
The board of despots wary of their precarious positions and buying time with US.
Israel’s far right urges Netanyahu to reject Trump’s Gaza plan ~ FT https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/2d6368c5-e432-4e1b-89ff-8b8248a15abd
"Benjamin Netanyahu was under pressure on Friday from far-right members of his government to reject a plan announced by US President Donald Trump under which Hamas would disarm in exchange for a phased Israeli withdrawal from Gaza."
"However, US officials made clear that Trump expected both sides to abide by the deal, putting Netanyahu — who is hoping for the US president’s backing ahead of Israeli parliamentary elections later this year — in an uncomfortable position."
“We are not asking Israel to do anything other than agree to the 20-point plan that they agreed to initially, and so we are very confident they will adhere to it,” said one US official.
“If they don’t, obviously President Trump would be very, very disappointed.”
As a metaphor, "drawing to an inside straight" means pursuing a risky strategy based on a wild hope with a very low chance of success. It describes building up high expectations for an unlikely outcome instead of following a practical, statistically sound plan.
...he never said anything about starting or continuing wars.
The war with Iran has been "continuing" since it "started" over 45 years ago. The Iranian regime has been "playing out their hand using game theory" the entire time. Their strategy has been to use asymmetric warfare tactics while they build their conventional missile and nuclear (including dirty and EMP) warfare forces into an immovable deterrent both globally and regionally. Reflected the IRGC's revulsion at giving up their one remaining strategic card of threatening the straight.
Trump took the initiative and the political risk to interrupt that plan while fighting the battle exercising the patience needed to preserve what is necessary for Iran to emerge from the scourge of the IRGC without using ground forces to occupy the country.
Right now, the IRGC's strategy depends on suppressing domestic dissent and the election of Democrats in November.
"**Trump ** who is quickly being taken over by **NeoCons and AIPAC**"
"Israel’s far right urges Netanyahu to reject Trump’s Gaza plan..."
Dissenters here need to decide whether Trump is a tool of Isreal or not.
I'm as hopeful as anybody else that the deal will come to fruition productively, but privately I think that the only reason Hamas would agree to something like this, is because they've run out of things to break. I suspect the real reason for this is due to Iran's funding running dry, so now they must turn to buying time.
Hamas is ruthless. They do not see themselves as political and social leaders, they see their population as being useful as a tool for getting more money, or shielding their own scruffy necks. They're not going to change their mind and turn over a new leaf, any more than the IRGC is going to. They have to be defeated if you want to see change.
Hamas will disarm = one great big fairy tale.
The IGRC's strategy is to keep the Straights closed for business. Trumpy Dumpy sat on a wall, Trumpy Dumpy had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't open Hormuz again.
Lindsey Graham's memorial service was the funeral for MAGA 1.0.
Sun Tzu would not approve.
“I would have won Vietnam very quickly. I would have won Iraq in the same amount of time that we’ve won here.” ~ Donald J Trump 04/21/2026
Has Russia hitting Ukraine hard over the last four and a half years reduced the firing back from Ukraine when your homeland is under attack? How long did the US pummel Vietnam?
History does not repeat but it certainly rhymes.
Trump’s Forever War. Republicans are going to take such a kicking in the midterms. And serves them right for doing the complete opposite of what they promised at the last election.
Nobody in the Trump administration believes that Iran or Hamas will faithfully honor any written agreement. That is not why those deals were made.
Destroying their assets and top leadership seems like a pretty statistically sound opening plan.
It is brilliant compared to the Obama plan of bribing them into agreements we know they will never honor.
The headline didn't include the disclaimer "without evidence" ? I'm taking that to mean it's true.
I still hope that at least some of the people driving Trump’s record-low approval ratings are responding to his corruption and nonstop lies. I want to believe those things still matter to people, even when the evidence suggests otherwise.
I can't help but insert the standard phraseology in that last link text: Trump Claims Without Evidence: Deal is Reached to Disarm Hamas in Gaza. Clearly a style book goof on their part.
Bah, @levi starks beat me to it. Great minds and all that.
If Hamas disarms, there will be peace. If Israel disarms, there will be no Israel.
IEE wrote: “I want to believe those things still matter to people, even when the evidence suggests otherwise.” If corruption and lies mattered to everyone, there would be no Democrats. Take, for example, Democrats at the Fauci hearing.
Trump isn’t lying here. Only engaging in wishful thinking.
I'm trying to imagine Hamas and Trump in Monty Python disarm skits
The name Hamas is an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement".
So IRM & IRGC have Venn overlap
Weird form for acronym though!! Who helped to form it?
IF Posed on test my answer would be H- AM- AI
Could be rules for consonants
"Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza."
The only way to disarm Hamas is to literally chop their arms off.
Supposedly, an English professor was telling the class "There are double negatives that result in a positive but there are no double positives that result in a negative", to which a student replied "Yeah, sure."
I think that might be appropriate here - Yeah, sure.
It doesn't matter what Trump tweets. The middle east is a blood-soaked mess. Israeli war criminals are stealing land in the West Bank and murdering Palestinians. The genocide in Gaza has never stopped. Southern Lebanon is still occupied by the Gangsters in Israel and they are still destoying villages and killing civilians.
And of course, we now locked in a forever war with Iran, since we can't keep our agreements, or stop lying and killing their leaders.
Its a disgusting immmoral shit shit show and its being done in the American's name and with our tax dollars and bombs.
In the UK the zionists have so much power anyone, even 71 y/o grannies are being arrested as "terrorists" because they support palestine and point out Israeli war crimes.
You can still criticize Israel in the UK, and not go to jail, but you have to do so carefully and tip toe around things. After all, this is the country where someone got 3 years in prison for posting a flyer saying "Its OK to be white".
As a fiscal conservative deficit hawk, there’s no way I could support a $1.5 trillion budget. Unless that $1.5 trillion was for an alcoholic Fox News weekend anchor who’s losing a war to Iran’s third tier army.
The sad thing is the majority of the military and intelligence folks in the Trump administration advised against the Iran war.
You really are a ridiculous little twit Howie. That is total kaki-style bs, but you lost your cred a long time ago.
There's a sucker born every minute.
The TRULY sad thing is when people turn their hardcore TDS into hardcore anti-Americanism. That will not be easily forgiven.
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