Trump's "Board of Peace" will reportedly include countries such as Turkey and Qatar. Both countries, like Hamas, are followers of the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. Its motto is: "Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."

"Qatar is at the top of funding terrorism worldwide, even more than Iran." — Udi Levy, former head of a Mossad unit dealing with economic warfare against terrorist organizations and countries that sponsor terrorism, Ynet, April 18, 2024.

Many Hamas leaders and activists, who safely sat out the war in the luxurious comfort of Turkey and Qatar, have no interest in seeing Hamas removed from power. Qatar and Turkey, in addition, are hardly likely to participate in any attempt to disarm Hamas or destroy its military and terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.

"Hamas uses Turkey to plan terrorist activities inside Israel, in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip, and to raise and launder money in support of its terrorist operations, including the October 7, 2023 attack and massacre." — Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, February 3, 2025.

Documents seized by the Israel Defense Forces during the war revealed extensive cooperation between the Qatari government and Hamas. In one letter, Haniyeh informed another Hamas leader... that the emir of Qatar had agreed to covertly fund the group's armed "resistance" efforts against Israel. "So far, $11 million has been raised by the emir for the [Hamas] leadership."

With members such as Qatar and Turkey, it is difficult to see how Trump's "Board of Peace" will be able to achieve even an impersonation of peace, security, and stability in the Gaza Strip.

Egypt, apparently another member of the Board, recently tried to claim that Trump's plan does not call for Hamas disarmament, but only for collecting and handing over weapons as part of understandings among various Palestinian factions, including Hamas.

The Trump administration should have conditioned the establishment of the Board and reconstruction on Hamas first laying down its weapons and relinquishing control of Gaza.

Under the current circumstances, we seem headed toward a situation where the Board of Peace and the proposed Palestinian technocratic government will operate in parallel with Hamas, not instead of it. Recall, as well, that no Palestinian would dare to join any governing body without Hamas's approval.

For the Board of Peace to succeed, it must first issue a clear ultimatum to Hamas and all the terror groups in the Gaza Strip to lay down their weapons by a certain date and then disappear from the scene. These groups, like ISIS, have nothing constructive to offer as political, military, or civilian entities: their stated goal is to destroy Israel and bring more death and destruction on the Palestinians. Reminder: Hamas and its allies do not believe in any peace process with Israel. For them, according to their conditioning as well as Article 13 of the 1988 Hamas Covenant, Jihad (holy war) remains the only option on the table: "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."

From the look of the countries reportedly involved, Trump's Board of Peace seems more like an army of Israel's enemies being giddily planted on its border, and delighted to sign all sorts of accords, both for the immediate benefits and the opportunity, after Trump leaves office, to tear them up and try again to rid the world of the one country, Israel, that they never wanted near them in the first place.

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