Quote Originally Posted by Heathblue View Post
Videos online of Hamas executing Palestinians they accuse of being traitors, it's Iraq all over again, no exit strategy with the terror groups running amok and deciding justice.
It is no surprise that Hamas are trying to reassert their authority - and taking on 'criminal gangs' (aka crime clans who were promoted by Israel to weaken Hamas and also had a major side line in stealing aid), political opponents (especially those Fatah and anti-Hamas activists and fighters who reject Islamism) and the people they regard as traitors and collaborators.

They won't disarm, and short of the IOF rampaging across Gaza again (very likely) there is no military or police force that could be put in place to enforce any sort of disarmament. Because there is no plan - just 20 points on the back of a golf score card and a sickening photo op. Hopefully more aid and a lower level of killing, but that doesn't add up to peace.

Trump will probably lose interest soon. The attention span of a gnat. I imagine he has had his ego massaged enough, put a marker down for the Nobel Prize next year (he hopes) and deflected some of the strong MAGA opposition that was building against the way Netanyahu was playing him.

He even managed to make a Trumpian threat to Hamas yesterday to say they would be disarmed one way or another - with or without violence. Another wave of US/Israeli drones that will kill hundreds of civilians? He has no other plan - he only has sound bites.

Trump also appears to have forgotten his soundbites from a day earlier when he appeared to be condoning, even encouraging, Hamas 'policing' whatever parts of Gaza the Israelis had withdrawn from:

https://abcnews.go.com/International...y?id=126480352

President Donald Trump implied Hamas has been given approval to act as a Palestinian police force in Gaza "for a period of time" in the wake of implementing phase one of the ceasefire agreement.

While en route to the Middle East earlier Monday aboard Air Force One, Trump responded to a question from a reporter about reports of Hamas rearming themselves.

"Well, they [Hamas] are standing because they do want to stop the problems, and they've been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time," Trump said.