This Is How the Deal Lets Hamas Keep Its Weapons and Stay in Power

"They want peace. They want a better economic future for their families."

Every deal with Islamic terrorists depends on those foolish enough to believe them.

That’s how it played out in Afghanistan, in Syria and back in the beginning with the PLO as useful idiots decide that they want to believe that Islamic terrorism will go away if we throw enough money and democracy at them. Quickly the diplomats decide that the terrorists are the solution and those skeptical of them, like Israel, are the problem and are standing in the way of beautiful new future they envision.

The ‘ceasefire’ deal follows the same familiar trajectory as Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner, have begun insisting that all Hamas wants is a better life and focusing on the fantastic redevelopment sure to come. As Kushner said at Davos, “If we believe peace is possible, then peace really can be possible.” That amounts to faith in Hamas.

All of this is just a reboot of the Oslo peace accords with the PLO and Yasser Arafat that led to this whole crisis in the first place in which wishful thinking not only eclipsed reality but led to a series of deals that gave the terror group a much bigger and deadlier platform with international support. Now it’s happening again.

“I think we can show Hamas that disarmament is the right thing for long-term peace and for the future. And the Gaza reconstruction plan, under President Trump’s oversight, is an unbelievable plan. Gaza is meant to become an amazing place,” Witkoff claimed.

“In the beginning, we were toying with the idea of saying, let’s build a free zone and then we have a Hamas zone. And then we said, you know what? Let’s just plan for catastrophic success. We, Hamas signed a deal to demilitarize. That is what we are going to enforce,” Kushner argued in his Davos address.

How do we know it’s going to work? ” Just believe.

“We’ve talked to a number of Hamas people, and we’re hearing throughout the Arab world that people don’t want to be at war anymore. They want peace. They want a better economic future for their families. They want credible homes,” said a second US official on the briefing. “They want what everybody else in this world wants — just a good life, and a good life doesn’t occur through military means.”

Note how the goal post has moved from Hamas cannot remain in power to... Hamas has to give up its weapons.

What about Hamas actually giving up power?

Hamas has reached understandings with the US government, Sky News Arabic reported.

Quoting Palestinian Arab sources, Sky News reported that in exchange for recognition as a political body, Hamas would agree to surrender its weapons and provide maps of the tunnels in the Gaza Strip.

The sources also added that the United States agreed to include several former Hamas police officers and officials in the management of “New Gaza,” provided they undergo Israeli and American security screenings.

However, the source noted that Israel has expressed significant reservations about several aspects of the agreement, particularly the clause allowing Hamas to continue as a political entity in Palestinian politics.

So Hamas officials would remain in power as long as they underwent ‘security screenings’ to determine what, if they’re members of an Islamic terrorist organization.

This hasn’t been confirmed either but it tracks with Witkoff’s constant talk about his meetings with Hamas.

Is Hamas going to disarm? It depends on how you define ‘disarming’.

Bishara A. Bahbah, Witkoff’s ‘Palestinian’ advisor, previously claimed that Hamas only has to give up its ‘heavy weapons’.

“The American interpretation had been that if Hamas handed over its heavy weapons to an Arab-Palestinian side and promised not to develop or smuggle new ones, it would be considered disarmed. As for individual weapons – the ability for people to defend themselves in case of an attack – this was acceptable under the American definition.”

We haven’t gotten a direct confirmation on that, but the UK is now saying much the same thing.

Sir Keir Starmer’s lead security aide has been lobbying for Hamas to keep some of its guns as part of the Gaza peace process.

Jonathan Powell, the Prime Minister’s national security adviser, believes the terror group should be permitted to retain AK-47s and other personal weapons, in order to break the deadlock in stalled talks on phase two of the ceasefire.

“He’s been hammering the phone with [the] Americans, trying to push what’s seen on this side as a realistic way forward, as against the Israeli approach,” a source close to the negotiations said.

Mr Powell, who was Sir Tony Blair’s chief of staff during the Northern Ireland peace process, believes Hamas should be allowed to keep some arms at least in the medium term, with a full decommissioning process completed later.

AK-47s are now “personal weapons” and the actual disarmament will happen down the road. But if we want the AK-47s, we’ll have to buy them from Hamas. (And Iran will just smuggle in more weapons.)

The US has been in talks with Mideast mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, which have assured Washington that Hamas will agree to a gradual disarmament plan that would begin with the terror group giving up its heavy weaponry and the launch of a “buy-back” program for lighter weapons, according to the US official and two Arab diplomats, who said the goal is to begin implementing the program in the coming weeks.

If Hamas turns over any weapons, who will those weapons actually go to? Hamas. Let’s back to what Witkoff’s adviser was saying.

“Hamas will eventually have to hand over its heavy weapons to Arab-Islamic-Palestinian forces.” And those forces will include Hamas. “It is possible that Hamas activists will integrate in the future into the Palestinian security forces. Israel and the US will have to accept this, because there will be supervision over them and a responsible authority, and they will integrate into the Palestinian security force,” Bahbah claimed.

This is in line with what Hamas itself has said, that it will only turn over its weapons to the military force of a terrorist state that includes it.

Egyptian officials have warned the United States that Hamas still retains significant military capabilities in Gaza, including the ability to strike Israel, according to a report in the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar. The officials reportedly added that Hamas will disarm only when a “Palestinian state is created with East Jerusalem as its capital” and the terrorist organization receives “firm guarantees that Israel will not violate any potential agreement and resume strikes on Hamas.”

The weapons, if they are given up, will go to a phantom government overseen by the PLO officials now being described as ‘technocrats’ being overseen by the Hamas state sponsors in Turkey and Qatar.

“We have a new government in Gaza. This government will be working with Hamas on the demilitarization to really take the principles that were agreed to in the document to the next phase,” Kushner said

The head of the new technocratic committee in Gaza, Ali Shaath, confirmed as such during his televised remarks: “As chief commissioner of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), it’s my responsibility to turn this moment into action to restore order to rebuild institutions and to create a future for the people of Gaza defined by opportunity and dignity under the principle of one authority, one law, and one weapon.”

If any of this sounds familiar, the deal for disarming Hezbollah involved asking the Lebanese government, a puppet of Hezbollah, to disarm the terror group. The disarmament in Lebanon hasn’t happened and it never will.

“One weapon” doesn’t mean disarmament, it means integration within a single force.

The NCAG can only operate to the extent that Hamas will allow it to. In short, it’s a Hamas puppet, and exists as part of a collaboration between the PLO and Hamas, a temporary collaboration, aimed at fooling the United States long enough to recognize their Islamic terror state as part of the unity deal they negotiated in Moscow and Beijing during the war.

Give Qatar credit here. It’s once again driving the ‘useful idiots’ toward the solution it wants, a Hamas terrorist state in Israel with international recognition, by convincing the Europeans (who didn’t need much convincing) and the weak links in the Trump administration, (Witkoff, Kushner, etc) that any ceasefire depended on negotiations with Hamas, and then gradually framed those negotiations as a pathway to allowing Hamas to take over Gaza with international recognition through a series of compromises that ‘integrate’ the terror group into a front government and its terror forces as part of the creation of a ‘Palestinian’ state.

Even as the deal will prevent Israel from striking Hamas until it’s ready to attack.

Meanwhile, Turkey will sign a defense pact with Hamas, ship it advanced weapons legally and be prepared for direct intervention on behalf of the new ‘state’.

There couldn’t be a worse response to Oct 7 than prepping Hamas for a much worse attack, this time with international support, and billions in foreign funding. And it all depended on exploiting the same wishful thinking that has governed the situation for decades, the belief that the Islamic terrorists don’t want to conquer and destroy Israel but that, as a nameless U.S. official said, Hamas “want what everybody else in this world wants — just a good life, and a good life doesn’t occur through military means.”

This process began with the calls for a ‘ceasefire’ and the foolish agreement by Israel to negotiate one which put Hamas in the driver’s seat, just as it previously put the Taliban in the driver’s seat in Afghanistan, and paves the way for a Hamas state.

This is how Hamas gets to keep its weapons, stay in power and be prepped for the next wave of attacks.