A new international transitional body, the “Board of Peace,” which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J Trump.
Trump getting his King Leopold on
Trump and Netanyahu Tell Hamas to Accept Their Peace Plan, or Else
President Trump said Israel would have a green light to “finish the job” if Hamas refused to agree to the cease-fire deal.
President Trump on Monday cast his plan for a cease-fire in Gaza as a landmark deal to bring peace after two years of catastrophic violence. But in reality, it was more like an ultimatum to Hamas.
Standing alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Mr. Trump unveiled a proposal to which both men had agreed. If Hamas refuses to do the same, Mr. Trump said, the United States will let Israel “do what you would have to do.”
“Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas,” said Mr. Trump, who under the plan would become the temporary chairman of a board in charge of the redevelopment of Gaza.
Vindication?!
“It would have been a reasonable calculation for Hamas to say, ‘Look at the increasing isolation and condemnation of Israel. They will have to stop soon,’” Mr. Abrams said. “But Trump eliminated that possibility today. Now they won’t have to stop. This really corners them.”
Donald Dove
“He has created a peace plan that, if in fact Hamas accepted it in principle, would require an extraordinary lift by the United States,” said Aaron David Miller, a former longtime State Department official who is now a Middle East analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Every single point is going to be negotiated to death.”
Mr. Miller said he was struck by how the peace proposal seemed to hinge so much on the president personally playing a role. “Trump signed up for something that I think is going to require an extraordinary amount of American involvement and monitoring, and he’s made himself the key monitor,” Mr. Miller said.
“This is not a throwaway cease-fire agreement,” he added. “This is the full monty here, and at the top of this full monty sits one Donald Trump.”
