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One Hamas Terrorist Can Destroy Trump鈥檚 Big, Beautiful Peace Plan

Even in a best-case scenario where Hamas agrees to Trump鈥檚 plan, the contempt for Jews and Israel will remain in the soul of every armed Hamas terrorist.
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September 29, 2025
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It was impossible not to feel hopeful as the most powerful man in the world waxed dreamily about solving a conflict he says is 鈥渢housands of years old鈥 and aiming for nothing less than 鈥渆ternal peace in the Middle East.鈥

What is noteworthy about Trump鈥檚 peace plan, which got the support and input of Prime Minister Netanyahu, is how detailed and thoughtful it is. To give just one example, here is how the plan would kick off:

Once both sides agree to the deal, the fighting will stop. Israel will freeze its positions, aerial and artillery strikes will cease, and battle lines will remain fixed to enable logistics and monitoring. Within 72 hours of Israel鈥檚 public acceptance, all hostages, alive and deceased, are to be returned.

The plan is loaded with such appreciation for logistics and execution. The steps are thought through, from how the swaps would work to who would run Gaza during the transition to what happens to Hamas to humanitarian aid and Gaza reconstruction to reforming the Palestinian Authority to legal, political and diplomatic questions that would arise, and so on.

But while the plan shines with thoroughness, there are still plenty of unanswered questions. The biggest one is that it overlooks the key obstacle to success: The loose terrorist whose specialty is to destroy anything good.

Israel has decades of experience with this phenomenon, when one mad terrorist can destroy dreams of peace.

Let鈥檚 be realistic: Even in a best-case scenario where Hamas agrees to Trump鈥檚 plan, the contempt for Jews and Israel will remain in the soul of every armed Hamas terrorist. We can never overstate the corrosive effect of teaching generations of Palestinians 鈥 in schools, camps, mosques and media 鈥 to hate Jews while glorifying terrorists.

What happens, then, if a Hamas bomb explodes, just as the implementation of the plan is in full bloom, and murders international workers or Israeli soldiers?

Who will have the stomach to move forward with a peace plan while the dark face of evil has arisen to remind us it hasn鈥檛 gone anywhere? Who will jump in to handle the situation, and what damage will that do to the plan if things escalate?

According to press reports, 鈥渢he plan does not specify who secures border crossings, oversees weapons storage sites, or polices neighborhoods. Clear mandates for international monitors, joint operations rooms, and rapid de-escalation channels would be needed to avoid a security vacuum.鈥

That鈥檚 like saying we鈥檙e not sure what we鈥檒l do if the security situation blows up, but let鈥檚 cross that bridge when we get there.

In the Middle East, that bridge is always there.

Those 鈥渃lear mandates鈥 the plan needs to avoid a 鈥渟ecurity vacuum鈥? If you ask me, that should come first.

Of course, I鈥檇 love nothing better to be wrong and that freelancing, Jew-hating terrorists won鈥檛 sabotage Trump鈥檚 plan. And let鈥檚 not underestimate the prospect of getting the hostages home (as a friend in Jerusalem told me, 鈥淭hat鈥檚 all I care about.鈥)

Compared to previous efforts, the plan is a major diplomatic achievement, with the kind of broad support across the region we haven鈥檛 seen in a long time. Which makes it even more crucial to protect it from evil forces we know will try to destroy it.

We鈥檝e learned the hard way that in Israel鈥檚 neighborhood, without hard security, dreams can easily melt into nightmares.聽

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