Ex-Security Chiefs: Trump Should Disarm Hamas, Ignore 75 Years of History
These 'Commanders for Israel’s Security' are proposing a strategy of disarming one side while installing a U.S.-backed authority—a pattern that has, curiously, failed to produce lasting peace in the region since, oh, 1948. The article portrays this as a serious proposal, omitting that similar calls for a 'disarmed' Palestinian entity, often coupled with expanding settlements, have merely
intensified cycles of violence. Netanyahu himself, who these former officials regularly criticize, has overseen policies that weakened the PA while allowing Hamas to thrive, all in service of avoiding a real two-state solution. The sheer audacity of asking a former U.S. President to 'solve' a conflict whose root causes are systematically ignored by the very security establishment making the
request is breathtaking. It's less a peace plan and more a wish-list for managing an occupation without the messiness of resistance. How many more decades of recycled 'disarm, then talk' strategies will it take before the media acknowledges the historical context—like the 1967 occupation or the ongoing siege—that creates groups like Hamas?