What does peace mean?

in which I ponder the reaction to the peace deal and ceasefire and reflect on the roots of Palestinian grievance culture and Muslim extremism

So, apparently we have a peace deal and we expect the return of all hostages within days. Naturally the Wokifada hasn’t received the ceasefire peace deal well. They’re mad colonialism blah blah occupation blah blah genocide blah blah Zios blah blah. It’s a lot of narcissistic grievance noise. Everyone bears the blame for the plight of Palestinians except Palestinians. It’s the same old mind rot where the Wokifada designate a victim group and the victimhood status exempts them from responsibility, strips the victim of agency, infantalises them to ridiculous degrees.

Devoid of compassion, ethics, integrity—the Wokifada has created a cycle of righteous hatred and justified violence.

We are tired of the bullying and terrorising. Reader, do you feel tired? I’m quite tired of the victimhood narcissism and the corrupt NGO cult of faux activism sucking the oxygen out of the room. It’s clear by now they seek the destruction of Israel and global Jewry.

At this point I find this only mildly irritating and highly amusing. Sorry, complete strangers wishing me suffering because they’re mad about a geopolitical situation leave me cold. They drain my compassion. Just being honest, reader. I dislike narcissism. This helps no Gazan and it doesn’t advance peace. It creates division and animosity.

Anyway, what’s this peace deal all about? Here’s the 20 point plan that Trump laid down to end the conflict in Gaza.

President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict:

1. Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.

2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.

3. If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end. Israeli forces will withdraw to the agreed upon line to prepare for a hostage release. During this time, all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended, and battle lines will remain frozen until conditions are met for the complete staged withdrawal.

4. Within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages, alive and deceased, will be returned.

5. Once all hostages are released, Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1700 Gazans who were detained after October 7th 2023, including all women and children detained in that context. For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.

6. Once all hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.

7. Upon acceptance of this agreement, full aid will be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip. At a minimum, aid quantities will be consistent with what was included in the January 19, 2025, agreement regarding humanitarian aid, including rehabilitation of infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage), rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries, and entry of necessary equipment to remove rubble and open roads.

8. Entry of distribution and aid in the Gaza Strip will proceed without interference from the two parties through the United Nations and its agencies, and the Red Crescent, in addition to other international institutions not associated in any manner with either party. Opening the Rafah crossing in both directions will be subject to the same mechanism implemented under the January 19, 2025 agreement.

9. Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza. This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the “Board of Peace,” which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J. Trump, with other members and heads of State to be announced, including Former Prime Minister Tony Blair. This body will set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza. This body will call on best international standards to create modern and efficient governance that serves the people of Gaza and is conducive to attracting investment.

10. A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East. Many thoughtful investment proposals and exciting development ideas have been crafted by well-meaning international groups, and will be considered to synthesize the security and governance frameworks to attract and facilitate these investments that will create jobs, opportunity, and hope for future Gaza.

11. A special economic zone will be established with preferred tariff and access rates to be negotiated with participating countries.

12. No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return. We will encourage people to stay and offer them the opportunity to build a better Gaza.

13. Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt. There will be a process of demilitarization of Gaza under the supervision of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond use through an agreed process of decommissioning, and supported by an internationally funded buy back and reintegration program all verified by the independent monitors. New Gaza will be fully committed to building a prosperous economy and to peaceful coexistence with their neighbors.

14. A guarantee will be provided by regional partners to ensure that Hamas, and the factions, comply with their obligations and that New Gaza poses no threat to its neighbors or its people.

15. The United States will work with Arab and international partners to develop a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) to immediately deploy in Gaza. The ISF will train and provide support to vetted Palestinian police forces in Gaza, and will consult with Jordan and Egypt who have extensive experience in this field. This force will be the long-term internal security solution. The ISF will work with Israel and Egypt to help secure border areas, along with newly trained Palestinian police forces. It is critical to prevent munitions from entering Gaza and to facilitate the rapid and secure flow of goods to rebuild and revitalize Gaza. A deconfliction mechanism will be agreed upon by the parties.

16. Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza. As the ISF establishes control and stability, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will withdraw based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization that will be agreed upon between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the Unites States, with the objective of a secure Gaza that no longer poses a threat to Israel, Egypt, or its citizens. Practically, the IDF will progressively hand over the Gaza territory it occupies to the ISF according to an agreement they will make with the transitional authority until they are withdrawn completely from Gaza, save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat.

17. In the event Hamas delays or rejects this proposal, the above, including the scaled-up aid operation, will proceed in the terror-free areas handed over from the IDF to the ISF.

18. An interfaith dialogue process will be established based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence to try and change mindsets and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace.

19. While Gaza re-development advances and when the PA reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.

20. The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous co-existence.

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Naturally, the NGO cult opposes the deal. Because of course they do.

I’m not gonna go into details and critically anslyse this stuff. I do want to ask why, after 75 years, the Palestinian leadership hasn’t managed to build anything for their people except a trail of corruption and institutionalised misery. Why do westerners need to make this our problem? Sorry not sorry, why do I need to tear my shirt about a place I’ve never been and won’t visit because I can barely afford to live myself and definitely can’t afford travel? Why does this need to be my country’s problem? Where are the wealthy Shiekhs, where’s Arafat’s millionaire kid? Nowhere.

And the entire Muslim world wraps itself in a blanket of propaganda.

Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Hamas took over and many Islamists and their useful idiots said Hamas was okay and not a threat. Yes, Bibi used Hamas to thwart the PA. How long has Abbas been in power? Right. Don’t lecture me about that. What’s the deal with the failure of Palestinian and Muslim leadership? What’s the deal with raging antisemitism and animosity towards Christians and the west in the Muslim community? It’s culture of grievance and victimhood and rage and hate. It’s bonkers.

You know what’s amazing to me? That Yehuda Cohen still believes in the two state solution even after all his family has been through, with Nimrod’s captivity. That’s a peace ethic and I admire it a lot. It gives me pause to think.

What is peace?

Freedom from disturbance. Tranquility. A state of period in which there is no war or war has ended. Freedom from civil disorder. Freedom from dispute or dissension between individuals or groups. A a treaty agreeing to the cessation of war between warring states. In the word etymology we can see a connection to binding.

I Iove Lee a lot and I admit I’m not where he is on this stuff. It makes a difference to me that the traumatised Jewish and Israeli childhoods, the broken families, the displacement and hate—all have not received Palestinian empathy, also withheld for mourning and vengeance. Furthermore, Palestinian anger has menaced humanity for decades. It’s caused so much bloodshed and death and terror. Did we forget Munich Olympics? Apparently we did. Did we forget Arafat’s terrible leadership? Did we forget the terrorism he encouraged?

Why do we choose to ignore the origin story of Palestinian nationalism? Why do we choose to ignore the ongoing plague of Islamism and the terrorism it inspires? How can we have peace when the Muslim world doesn’t act like it wants peace? Can we be honest with ourselves? Why not?

The “human story,” to use Lee’s words, is the entire western world getting held captive by a group of rageful hate-infested Jew hating Islamist thugs. For 2 years my country has endured daily protests and disruptions and threats in an ongoing campaign of hate and terror glorification pretending to be standing up for Gazans. No Gazans are helped by the Wokifada. Hamas is not a legitimate resistance movement. Terrorism harms Palestinians.

I wrote about Wafaa Al-Biss a year ago. Go read.

The culture of jihadists destroys families and communities and it obstructs the nation building Palestinians need to happen.

Where do we go from here? I don’t know and I don’t see stellar western leadership required to lead us away from this horror show we’ve endured these past 2 years.

Below you can read what I think about the whole issue of hostage ransom, written in response to one of Dan Burmawi’s Substack note on the Trump deal “legitimising what Hamas represents.”

I think the Gilad Shalit deal legitimised Hamas and it led to the normalisation of a hostage taking industry and other Hamas grievance culture nonsense.

It’s a thing I have mixed feelings about, I understand the Shalit family wanting their loved one back. I’m a mother and I can’t imagine the horror of having my child held captive and the helplessness of it all. I see the Cohen family and I feel that deeply.

And then there’s a long history in Jewish culture of ransoming hostages. Maimonides wrote about this and felt strongly about ransoming captives. And on the other hand, there’s the Meir of Rothenburg who forbade his community to raise a ransom for him.

Hamas knows exactly what it’s done. It calculated this quite well. The Gilad Shalit deal was a terrible necessity. It started a bad precedent. Netanyahu did favour using Hamas as a way to thwart the P/A. And where has the Arab leadership and Muslim leadership been all this time? With their “Islamic values”, which mean nothing and are farcical.

This beast has many moving parts, many culpable actors. It now rests on the resolve of those who brokered the deal to stand up and say no to Hamas and Tehran, and the Muslim Brotherhood cult of enmity and terror. And it rests on western leaders to pull their head from their ass and stop invoking free expression to protect the MB and Hamas groupies and the bougie Wokifada keffiyeh cult of hate. This last bit is important and the three brainless clowns, Starmer Macron Carney, have stuck their foot in the shyte and made a mess of things.

We certainly have our work cut out for us, don’t we?