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https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/31/saving-trumps-gaza-peace-plan-from-hamas-and-the-europeans/

Despite some setbacks, President Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan has been an unprecedented success because it quickly achieved its most important objective: the release of all live Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The U.S. and its Arab allies are working hard to pressure Hamas to agree to implement the rest of the deal to achieve a lasting Middle East peace. Trump officials will also be pressing European states to fully support the plan and not undermine it.

The quick release of the Israeli hostages was considered impossible just a few weeks ago and reflected the high priority that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu placed on quickly saving the lives of these hostages while hammering out the details of other aspects of the agreement later.

The agreement also includes a cease-fire and a humanitarian aid surge in the first stage. Both were achieved, but they are at risk due to Hamas’s attacks on Israeli forces and its failure to return all the bodies of deceased hostages.

After Israel’s recent retaliation against Hamas’s violations of the cease-fire with heavy airstrikes on October 29, Israeli officials said they were resuming the cease-fire. Hamas handed over two bodies the next day, which it claimed were the remains of deceased Israeli hostages.

Hamas is resisting critical security-related elements of Phase Two of the peace plan. Hamas leaders have not given a clear answer on whether their forces will disarm. Some are insisting that Hamas fighters must be permitted to keep their “personal weapons.” In addition, the quick action by Hamas fighters to occupy the 45% of Gaza evacuated under the plan by Israel Defense Forces and their subsequent execution of supposed collaborators in these areas does not bode well for whether Hamas will ever agree to disarm and cede control of these areas to an International Stabilization Force (ISF).

Hamas leaders are also bickering with Arab mediators over the Phase Two provisions on post-war administration of Gaza and the ISF. Under the peace plan, Hamas is to play no role in these efforts, and the Palestinian Authority will be included only after it reforms. Hamas is insisting on a post-war role in governing Gaza and wants a so-called “inclusive Palestinian national framework” that includes all Palestinian factions, including Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, to negotiate post-war governance and security agreements. Hamas also rejects the ISF because it claims it will be a pawn of the United States and Israel, even though this force is expected to be composed of a neutral Palestinian police and troops from Egypt, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, several other Muslim states, and possibly Turkey.  In addition, Hamas leaders have also demanded that the ISG only be deployed on Gaza’s borders with Israel.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22027/palestinians-prefer-hamas-armed-struggle

These [Palestinian poll] findings contradict claims by some Western media outlets that a growing number of Palestinians were disillusioned with Hamas because of the death and destruction it has brought on its people as a result of its October 7 attack.

“The conclusion from these [Palestinian] numbers is that the past two years have led to greater support for Hamas rather than the opposite,” according to the poll.

Asked if Hamas had committed the atrocities seen in the videos shown by international media displaying atrocities committed by Hamas members against Israeli civilians, 86% said the terror group did not commit such atrocities. Only 10% said Hamas did commit them.

A majority of Palestinians, the poll showed, are extremely supportive of Iran, Hezbollah, Qatar and the Houthi militia in Yemen, a terror group that fired dozens of missiles and suicide drones at Israel during the war.

If elections for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority (PA) were held today, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal would win 63% of the votes, as opposed to 27% for incumbent PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

According to the poll, dissatisfaction with Abbas stands at 75%, while 80% want him to resign.

If parliamentary elections were held today, 44% of the Palestinians say they will vote for Hamas, 30% for Fatah, and 10% for third parties.

Also unexpected is the ongoing Palestinian support for the “armed struggle” (terrorism) against Israel.

The results of the poll also show the challenges facing the implementation of the Trump plan, especially disarming Hamas and deradicalizing Palestinian society. Most Palestinians are openly opposed to disarming Hamas – a situation that will make it effectively impossible for any Arab or foreign party to confiscate the terror group’s weapons by force.

Any Palestinian or Arab leader who sees that most Palestinians oppose the disarmament of Hamas will think twice before he undertakes such a mission: he would not want to act against the wishes of the Arab street — such a move would be regarded as treason.

As for deradicalization, it is clear from the poll that Palestinians are moving in the opposite direction.

Many Palestinians are afraid to speak out for fear of being labeled as traitors or collaborators with Israel. We have seen how Palestinians who challenged Hamas were tortured and executed in public squares in the Gaza Strip as soon as the ceasefire went into effect.

Radical change in Palestinian society will come only when Palestinians rise up against destructive leaders who, over the past few decades, have been dragging them from one disaster to another.

Those who thought that Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the ensuing war in the Gaza Strip have made Palestinians change their minds about the terror group are in for a rude awakening.

More than half of Palestinians continue to support the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israelis and foreign nationals on October 7. Moreover, the terror group remains popular among a large number of Palestinians. Support for Hamas means support for the destruction of Israel through Jihad (holy war).

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/29/the-un-is-rotten-to-the-core/

The war in Gaza may be over, but the global hostility towards Israel is as fierce as ever. Hamas’s most lurid propaganda claims, accusing the Jewish State of every crime against humanity imaginable, are now treated as fact by Western governments, media and academia. Globalist institutions – from the UN to international courts – are now totally corrupted by Israelophobic lies.

Barrister Natasha Hausdorff – legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust – has long been battling against these libels. She recently returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the return of the hostages and the lie of the Gaza ‘genocide’. What follows is an edited version of that conversation. You can watch the full thing here.

Brendan O’Neill: What role do you think the West’s abandonment of Israel played in the horrors of the past two years?

Natasha Hausdorff: I think certain people have blood on their hands. The hostages that will not be returning alive to their families, the deaths of soldiers in pursuit of releasing them all, the killing of Palestinian civilians who also suffered Hamas’s endless abuse – these things should not have gone on as long as they did. The war should have ended far, far sooner. We must recognise the impact that global support for this barbaric, genocidal terrorist organisation has had in prolonging it, in delaying a deal.

There has been this bizarre pantomime playing out, where the UK’s Labour government has claimed credit for playing some role behind the scenes in securing the peace deal. The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, rightly called this delusional.

The reality is that over the past six months, the UK government, as well as others that recognised Palestine, have done nothing except impose arms embargoes against Israel and criticise it constantly, making this deal so much harder to realise. The damage that certain Western states have done with their political positioning is truly unforgivable.

O’Neill: What role have the international media played?

Hausdorff: There has been this enormous propaganda war, a war of misinformation, which does inevitably inform people’s positions. Frankly, I’ve seen an abject absence of journalistic integrity. The media have refused to report the truth out of Gaza.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/un-international-court-of-justice-harangues-israel-again/

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is a contaminated appendage of the UN system, which should have been removed decades ago. Yet it remains as a symbol of the UN’s poisonous bias against the Jewish State of Israel.

UNRWA is devoted exclusively to Palestinians it registers as “refugees,” which is separate and distinct from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that handles all the rest of the world’s refugees. UNRWA was supposed to operate as a temporary organization to provide humanitarian relief and services for the original Palestinian refugee population of about 700,000 Arabs following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. But it turned into a self-perpetuating bureaucracy, which, unlike UNHCR, defines “refugee” as including generation after generation ad infinitum of the millions of descendants of the original refugees. Moreover, unlike UNHCR, UNRWA continues the status of “refugee” for Palestinians even if they have become citizens elsewhere (e.g., Jordan).

UN humanitarian organizations are supposed to operate neutrally, impartially, and independently of any undue outside influence. UNRWA has operated in the completely opposite manner. Nevertheless, the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion on October 22, 2025 concluding that international law requires Israel to fully cooperate with UNRWA in fulfilling its mission to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.

The ICJ dismissed the overwhelming evidence Israel presented proving its allegation that UNRWA cannot be trusted to perform its services neutrally, impartially, and independently of Hamas’ influence. The advisory opinion is a hopelessly one-sided political statement against Israel, not a carefully reasoned and impartial judicial decision. Fortunately, an advisory opinion is non-binding as a matter of law.

UNRWA does not carefully vet its employees, resulting in the hiring of numerous members of Hamas and other terrorist organization members as well as individuals with close family ties to terrorists. One former Commissioner-General of UNRWA shamelessly declared: “Oh, I’m sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll, and I don’t see that as a crime. Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant, and we do not conduct political vetting to exclude individuals based on their affiliations.” Another former Commissioner-General remarked: “Our employees are part of the social fabric of Gaza and its ecosystem. And as part of that social fabric in Gaza, you also have Hamas.”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/26/what-the-west-could-learn-from-israel/

Hostages Square in Tel Aviv is quiet now. The paraphernalia of hope remains. Yellow ribbons dance in the breeze. The flap of a hundred Israel flags breaks the silence. There’s still the burnt-out car that was recovered from the ‘road of death’ in the south, where Hamas slaughtered fleeing families on 7 October 2023. I look inside at its blackened remains, the squelched leather, the warped metal, and wince at the thought of what suffering must have unfolded in this suffocating space. In one corner of the square is an unsteady pile of placards featuring the faces of the 251 Israelis seized two years ago: the retired equipment of a moral movement no longer needed.

For the hostages are home now. The living ones at least – Israel still awaits the return of the remains of some of the stolen. It was in this urban throughway outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art that Israelis gathered these past two years to pray for the abducted. It was christened Hostages Square, and I expect that’s how it will always be known. Even Google Maps calls it that now. Its most striking feature is a mock Hamas tunnel, a 30-metre concrete bunker designed to simulate the experience of being a hostage in Gaza. I crouch and enter. After two minutes, claustrophobia kicks in. There are men who spent two years like this, and Israel wants to make sure the world never forgets.

Much of it already has, though. As I peruse a vast wall of stickers showing the smiling faces of the men and women who were stolen – some of whom made it home, some of whom did not – I feel a sudden flush of anger. Anger that Israel was left almost entirely alone to agitate for the precious lives and liberty of these abducted Jews. Anger that there were not similar Hostages Squares in London, New York, Berlin. Anger that the same yellow ribbons that flutter so lovingly here were violently torn down on the streets where I live by medieval mobs eaten up by a demented hatred for the Jewish State.

And anger that hardly anyone in Europe knows the name Alon Ohel. A gleaming piano has pride of place in Hostages Square. It has Alon’s photo on it alongside huge yellow lettering that says: ‘You are not alone.’ Alon, 24, is an accomplished pianist who was taken from the Nova music festival and held for 738 days with shrapnel in his right eye. He’s free now, and his sight is slowly improving. We all went to see the Roman Polanski film about a Jewish pianist ghettoised by the fascists of the 1940s – who will tell the story of this Jewish pianist held underground by the fascists of the 2020s? The hope is that when he recovers from his long, black captivity, he will come to Hostages Square and play this piano. The sweet music of defiance.

A short walk and I am in Dizengoff Square. It could not be more different. This old square has become a makeshift monument to the Israelis who have died in this infernal war Hamas started and yet it pulsates with life. It throbs with noise and bustle. Armies of people sup espressos in the al fresco cafés that encircle it. People lounge on the green. And every day, at every hour, they come to see an extraordinary spectacle: the hundreds of lovingly framed photos of the dead that have been perched on the perimeter wall of the square’s fountain. Untold numbers of joyful, youthful faces. Photos, it strikes me, of men and women who will have been born well into the 2000s, and yet whose lives have already been given for their country on the scorched, unforgiving battlefield of Gaza.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22016/gaza-palestinians-technocratic-government

According to a report by Israel’s KAN News, Hamas has already selected half of the technocratic government’s members, including figures sympathetic to the terror group, while the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, chose the other half. Mediators, including Egypt, presented the full list to Hamas to ensure its approval, a move that will allow the terror group to maintain influence in the Gaza Strip after the war.

The terrorists who launched the war by committing the worst crime against Jews since the Holocaust and who brought death and destruction on their own people should not be allowed to have a say in the future governance of the coastal enclave.

If Hamas is allowed to maintain a security presence in the Gaza Strip, this means that the new government and its members would be at the mercy of terrorists and militiamen who are already carrying out extrajudicial executions against their critics, political opponents and suspected “collaborators” with Israel.

US President Donald J. Trump’s plan for ending the war in the Gaza Strip states: “Hamas and other factions agreed to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza.”

The factions that met in Cairo made no mention of an “international transitional body” or the proposed “Board of Peace” as outlined in Trump’s plan.

Needless to say, the Palestinian factions pointedly ignored the part of Trump’s plan that calls on the terror groups to lay down their weapons. Hamas leaders have repeatedly emphasized that their group has no intention to disarm before the establishment of an independent and sovereign state.

Fatah and Hamas, in short, do not want Trump’s “Board of Peace” or any international body to play any role in the governance of the Gaza Strip. Each of the two factions wants the Gaza Strip to be ruled by its own loyalists, masquerading as “independent” and “apolitical” figures.

What we are currently witnessing is an attempt by both Fatah and Hamas, with the help of Egypt and Qatar (Hamas’s main sponsor and funder), to circumvent the Trump plan.

Are Egypt and Qatar working to ensure Hamas’s continued rule over the Gaza Strip by allowing the terror group to choose members of a new technocratic government?

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com 

In the weekly dispatches from Israel Michael Ordman proves how Israeli research and technology improves the lives and aspiration of citizens throughout the world. Some of many examples are of Israel’s medical advances, that rival the world’s leading hospitals in diagnostic and curative measures. Imagine for a minute the benefits that peace will bring. 

Psalm 29:11
“The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.” rsk

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
I lost my leg but not my future. Three IDF soldiers endured trauma, yet their resilience shines through as they rebuild their lives. Through the support of Belev Echad (see here previously) they have received advanced prosthetics, therapy, and a community in Kiryat Ono that helped them reclaim their lives.
https://worldisraelnews.com/i-lost-a-leg-but-not-my-future-soldiers-journeys-from-trauma-to-renewal/
 
Messi gifts signed jerseys to ex-hostages. Argentinian soccer legend Lionel Messi gifted two recently released Israeli hostages, Bar Kuperstein and Segev Kaflon, with signed jerseys valued at $10,000 each.
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-soccer-legend-messi-gifts-two-released-hostages-signed-jerseys/
 
Oct 7 VR center. The new October 7 Education Center in the southern city of Sderot, aims to create an immersive experience using screens and other multimedia technology. The center, opened in April, since when a few thousand people have already visited, with a goal of 40,000 visitors per year.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-october-7-center-in-south-harnesses-virtual-reality-for-an-immersive-experience/
 
Return to Kibbutz Dafna. On 8 Oct 2023, Hezbollah rained rockets down on northern Israel, forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to evacuate. Today, 95% of the 1,000 residents who lived in Kibbutz Dafna before the war are back. And the secular kibbutz held a communal Shabbat to give a message of resilience, faith, & hope.
https://www.jns.org/back-to-the-border-a-communitys-return-resilience-and-renewal-in-northern-israel/
 
Mandela’s granddaughters visit Israel & Gaza. As most people find, when they see Israel and the Palestinian territories for themselves they get a completely different view from that they received in their home countries. Very interesting interview here of the experiences of two granddaughters of Nelson Mandela.
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/10/nelson-mandela-granddaughters-israel-gaza-visit/
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Israel ranks 4th in OECD for life expectancy. Israel spends less than most OECD countries on health, yet it has one of the lowest levels of infant mortality, heart disease mortality, and preventable deaths. Israel’s average life expectancy is 83.8 years – almost a year more than in 2023 and the fourth highest in the OECD.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-life-expectancy-fourth-highest-in-oecd-1001524081
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-870952
 
Breakthrough device for bladder cancer treatment. (TY Ron M) Israel’s CAPS Medical (see here previously) has received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its its PlasmaSure™ System to treat low- to intermediate-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/caps-medicals-plasmasure-receives-fda-110000164.html
 
IBD therapy discovered. Israel’s Immunai has used its immune system AI mapping platform to discover a novel therapeutic target for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Immunai has partnered with AstraZeneca who will develop the therapy, which if successful will earn Immunai up to $85 million.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj8zlcr6ex
 
Downton Abbey writer can write again. (TY OurCrowd) Downton Abbey creator Lord Julian Fellowes was successfully treated for essential tremor at St. Mary’s Hospital, London with the incisionless focused ultrasound therapy from Israel’s Insightec. He had lost the ability to write by hand due to involuntary shaking.
https://insightec.com/news/downton-abbey-creator-lord-julian-fellowes-successfully-treated-for-essential-tremor-with-insightecs-incisionless-focused-ultrasound-therapy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey
 
Be smart – pay attention. A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that the auditory cortex, one of the brain’s main sound-processing centers, changes how it operates when we focus on a task. It synchronizes its activity to the rhythm of the task rather than merely reacting to sounds.
https://www.cfhu.org/news/huji-researchers-discover-how-the-brain-becomes-a-better-listener-how-focus-enhances-sound-processing/  https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-870916
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1963
 
Israel can kickstart US IVF initiative. The new US policy announcement making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible is good news for Israel, which has been at the forefront of IVF treatment for decades. It opens up a massive opportunity for medical technology companies, particularly in Israel’s vibrant fem-tech scene.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-871149

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22004/disarming-hamas

“If we achieve a sovereign and independent Palestinian state that preserves the rights of the Palestinian people, then these weapons will be transferred to the Palestinian state and its army.” — Abdul Jabbar Saeed, member of Hamas’s political bureau, arabi21.com, October 16, 2025.

Saeed dismissed the idea of deploying international forces in the Gaza Strip…. He also rejected the idea of excluding Hamas from playing a future role in the governance of the Gaza Strip. “Completely excluding Hamas from the scene is not possible,” he stressed.

The involvement of Qatar and Turkey in the Gaza Strip is problematic because the two countries have always been supportive of Hamas. Both countries continue to provide shelter to several Hamas leaders and act as if they are its attorneys by constantly defending the terror group while condemning Israel.

The Saudis and Emiratis have reportedly notified the Trump administration that they would downgrade their level of engagement in the implementation of the Trump plan. Referring to Qatar, they warned that increasing the influence of “countries that destabilize the region” would derail the momentum of prosperity Trump has touted.

A Saudi source warned that Qatar was expected to help Hamas maintain its presence and return at an opportune moment.

Notably, in 2017 several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE decided to cut their diplomatic ties with Qatar over the Gulf state’s support for Islamist terror groups, especially the Muslim Brotherhood.

Saudi Arabia said it made the decision to cut diplomatic ties due to Qatar’s “embrace of various terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilizing the region,” including the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State (ISIS), and groups supported by Iran in the kingdom’s eastern province of Qatif.

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry accused Qatar of taking “an antagonistic approach” toward Egypt and said “all attempts to stop it from supporting terrorist groups failed….” Instead of insisting that Hamas lay down its weapons in compliance with Trump’s plan, they are now talking about the possibility that the terror group would “freeze” its weapons…. It is worth noting that the Trump plan does not talk about a “freeze” of Hamas’s weapons.

Bahrain, for its part, blamed Qatar’s “media incitement, support for armed terrorist activities, and funding linked to Iranian groups to carry out sabotage and spreading chaos in Bahrain” for its decision to cut diplomatic ties.

Anyone who believes that Hamas will voluntarily give up its weapons is living in a dream world. For the terror group, this would be tantamount to suicide. The terms “demilitarization” and “deradicalization” do not exist in Hamas’s lexicon.

Worse, anyone who believes that Qatar and Turkey will force Hamas to dismantle its military infrastructure is also living in fantasy land.