Let me warn you, this is going to be a controversial article, more so than usual I guess, and for that I offer no apologies. This world is made up of those who stay below the radar and avoid all confrontations, and those who will do anything to appease and get a pat on the back, and then the very very few who dare to say it as it is. By now I suspect you all know I am in the third category.
This week we have seen incredible fanfare of Trump the 21st Century saviour sorting out the whole of the Middle East and bringing peace to the region. He believes he has brokered peace between Israel and the Palestinians. He also believes that in the process he has got the mandate for peace from other regional players. Let me state upfront, this is cloud cuckoo land thinking.
On the very day Trump declared his victory against Hamas, I posted the following on X:
‘There is breaking news that the Palestinian terrorists Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire. I am left wondering when was the last time Hamas kept their word! As long as Hamas, and the mentality and ideology they aspire to exists - there will never be any peace. These are monsters who have used their own people as shields to protect themselves. Monsters who fed themselves whilst their own people starved. Monsters who have sworn that they want the end of all Jews. If Palestinians want true peace then the 1st step is the total eradication of Hamas’.
I accept this is brutal, but it is the truth that most politicians dare not visit, and a truth that most media wish to avoid – none will dare to state the obvious.
The west has tried to separate the Palestinians from Hamas terrorists. This is their way of condemning the terrorist Hamas, whilst letting off the hook the Palestinian people. Let me be very clear, in my view there is no difference between Hamas and Palestinians. Using simple logic will tell you that most of Hamas are drawn from the general Palestinian polulation, with some extra terrorists coming in from other neighbouring nations.
When ‘Hamas’ attacked Israel on 7th October 2023, the streets of Gaza and even the West Bank, were throbing with Palestinians who had come out to celebrate the mass murder and rape of Israelies. In fact, we saw similar celebrations right across many nations in the Middle East.
The Hamas movement was founded by the Palestinian Islamic scholar Ahmed Yassin in 1987. Hamas has promoted Palestinian nationalism in an Islamic context to form a state in all of former ‘mandatory Palestine’. Note the terminology, ‘mandatory Palestine’, this is the key phrase used to declare the elimination of Israel. They aspire towards their declared policy of ‘from the river to the sea’, meaning to take full control of all lands from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. i.e. The elimination of all Jews.
The so called 20-point Trump peace plan does not address anything related to the Palestinian demands. Palestinians have never rejected the Hamas ideology. They have still not denounced the core objective of, ‘from the river to the sea’. The only reason for this temporary cessation is because Israel has destroyed Gaza and it’s a means of getting the remaining hostages back home. Once that aim is achieved, the last bargaining chip Hamas holds will be gone.
Trump and his cheering squad of western leaders are selling the plan on a massive re-development of Gaza, and that most of this money will come from the region. This may well be true, and we may yet see Gaza re-developed and the Palestinians re-housed. However, for Palestinians, and for Islamists, this is just a bleep in their timescale of getting what they really want, namely the end of Israel.
Enduring peace I fear is just a hopeless wish. I cannot see any prospect of any type of enduring peace until there is a significant change in the Islamist ideology. A faith that declares all non-believers as ‘Kafir’, and commands the follower of the faith to use any and all means to either convert these ‘Kafir’, enslave them or terminate them. In Jammu and Kashmir do remember the same idology was at play. The call made from every mosque was, ‘Ralive, Galive, Chalive’, a phrase that translates to "Convert, Die, or Leave”.
Only followers of two faiths have shown over thousands of years that they have no desire to convert others, these being Hinduism and Judasiam. Let’s not forget that Christianity was also spread by the sword. When Islam came into being these two off spring of Abrahim fought for dominance for hundreds of years. This fight between these two old foes has left the world in the mess that we find today. Christians however have been clever, they amended the interpretation of their text to suit the times, whereas Islam still remains stuck in the 7th Century. The elephant in the room is a massive mammoth, yet people are sticking their heads in the sand to avoid facing the truth.
I cannot see any prospect of any enduring peace between Israel and its enemies because the enemies of Israel will never allow that to happen. However, for the sake of humanity I would love to be proven wrong.
