So the ceasefire’s, like, well installed. No-one’s died for over 24 hours in Gaza. Not from bombing anyway. Apparently lots have been killed there either by Hamas or by mafiaesque gangs roaming the streets, but the IDF? Zero. And you know it must be really quiet out there if Hamas have not claimed at least “25 children” being murdered on any given night. So it’s all hopeful. The hostages will return and then the ‘Board of Peace’ will step in and run the country for a bit, re-building (ok, a ‘big bit’ then) and keeping the peace until such a time as the Palestinian people can take over and govern themselves. Free from Hamas, obviously, everyone’s agreed on that part.

Oh, except for Hamas. Who have managed to find 7,000 of their finest to act as police on the streets. Yes, 7,000. All armed to the teeth, obviously. Which goes to show just how vast Hamas was before the war. When at least 30,000 have been killed. All disguised as ‘women and babies’, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Donald Trump has sent in 200 American troops to help ‘hold the line’ which is the Israel self-imposed line of retreat. I wonder at what point these new policemen will be told by Trump to ‘lay down their arms’ and… errrr… and disband!!!

But that really needs to happen before the Board of Peace pitches up, unless they intend to run Gaza remotely. Like, from Bromley. Otherwise all those who believe, trust and have been listening to Hamas for the last 2 years may have a nasty surprise when their ‘Imperial’ group of foreign stuffed shirts sets up shop in Raffah. Hamas are insisting that Gaza must be run by Palestinians. Who have proved adept at self-government historically. Ok, they haven’t. Never. Not even once. Without infighting, outfighting, factionalising and resorting to violence. Hamas and Fateh have never seen things the same, never agreed on the power structure and even when Arafat was there, the nearest they’ve had to ‘stability’ since 1948, there was chaos. And he was the last leader to refuse a ‘2-state solution’ when offered to him. Then Hamas ‘won the election’ in 2005 to gain control of Gaza and promptly put an end to further elections.

In 2006 Israel withdrew from Gaza. As Gaza, in the election, had backed a terrorist organisation sworn to Israel’s destruction. In doing so this cut The Strip off from Israeli jobs and hospitals and universities that they’d enjoyed previously. But how can you keep a border open with a people who want you destroyed?

Since then Hamas have taken more international aid than any other country and spent it on arms and tunnels. So, just in case you’ve missed this: HAMAS DON’T GIVE A SHIT FOR PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OTHER THAN TO FURTHER THEIR OWN JIHADI AIMS.

I’d love for the ‘peace’ to endure. But reading the radically alternative interpretations of Trump’s very very ‘loose’ 20-point plan, if we’re still in peace on Wednesday we’ll be doing well.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx