Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE MEDIA     Dispatch Article on Gaza Deal Quoting ZOA’s Morton Klein Expressing Concern   President Donald Trump at the Gaza Peace Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Yoan Valat/Pool/AFP/Getty Images) No Peace, No Plan Morton Klein of ZOA credits Trump with a genuine desire to do the right thing but judges the work, so far, to be insufficient. The 2,000 prisoners Israel released in exchange for the remaining hostages and remains will help Hamas to replenish its ranks, Klein says. “We were as thrilled as any decent person was that the hostages were released. But we have many reservations about this deal. It’s a problematic deal with people who don’t want peace.” By Kevin D. Williamson (October 22, 2025 / The Dispatch) Donald Trump’s grandiosely announced Middle East peace plan might have been a smashing success, except that it is missing two elements: 1) peace; 2) a plan. Like the so-called Abraham Accords, the Israel-Hamas peace plan is a triumph of marketing over substance, packaging over product. Neither of the two central parties to the dispute have, in fact, agreed to any binding terms, and, in fact, neither has signed the 20-point plan. A separate “implementation” document, even more vague than the 20-point plan, was signed by the parties and by their mediators, and that signature commits them to very little beyond a non-enforceable promise “to implement the necessary steps” to end the conflict. A third document, unveiled with great ceremony in the lovely Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, is essentially a celebratory White House press release, and neither of the belligerent parties has signed that one, either. Hamas immediately violated the terms of the supposed agreement by failing to return all of the remains of the hostages; the Israelis, to the surprise of no one, immediately resumed airstrikes in Gaza. No peace. Also, no plan. The Israelis, for their part, have much more modest expectations regarding this not-quite-an-agreement than the Trump PR team does: Proxies for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already are heaping scorn on the notion that this is some kind of comprehensive peace plan, insisting, instead, that it is only a ceasefire in exchange for the return of hostages. “Phase two might happen someday,” says Israeli political analyst Amit Segal, “but it’s unrelated to what’s just been signed.” If the document is merely aspirational in many points, then in others it would be more accurately described as delusional. E.g., the first bullet point—and a collection of bullet points is all this “plan” is—reads: “Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.” That would be lovely. How do we get there from here? No one at the White House seems to have any idea—nor anyone in Jerusalem, or in Gaza, or in Cairo, nor Tehran, whose role in all this is being studiously ignored by the Trump administration. You’d have to disarm Hamas, and Hamas has not agreed to be disarmed. Rather, Hamas responded to this demand for deradicalization and freedom from terror by launching a campaign of homicidal terrorism against its political rivals in Gaza, among other things wresting control of a hospital-cum-rocket factory from another Palestinian group. Unlike the Trump administration, Hamas has a plan, and, evidently, it involves a lot of rockets. It presumably does not involve a non-Hamas power governing Gaza. Deliverables, dates, meaningful sequencing—none of these are present in anything except the most vaporous form. (. . .) The Trump “plan” leaves Hamas intact and creates a terrorist sanctuary in Qatar to boot, as Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America notes: “The administration’s executive order shielding Qatar—while failing to demand the extradition of Hamas and other terror leaders living in Doha—effectively turns the terror-financing emirate into a protected haven for Islamist terrorists.” Klein credits Trump with a genuine desire to do the right thing but judges the work, so far, to be insufficient. “It’s early, but I’m sorry to say that Donald Trump has not supported Israel going all out to do what it needs to do: crush Hamas. Why did Hamas and Turkey and Qatar go for this deal now? Because Hamas was on the verge of destruction. Israel controlled 80 percent of Gaza and had troops in Gaza City. This is only a hudna,” he says, using the Arabic term for a strategic ceasefire. “It’s a chance to regroup and rearm.” The 2,000 prisoners Israel released in exchange for the remaining hostages and remains will help Hamas to replenish its ranks, Klein says. “We were as thrilled as any decent person was that the hostages were released. But we have many reservations about this deal. It’s a problematic deal with people who don’t want peace.” Continue Reading   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email   DONATE   www.zoa.org   Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2025. All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice