Trump's new Gaza Plan

I think you need a kind of a co unit between a person/country Israel trust and a person/country Palestinian would trust

I don’t think I know enough about global affairs to suggest people. But the idea that Trump would back something that didn’t have him at the helm is far fetched to say the least.

Lets just hope it’s not a cover for “Trump Gaza”

It is extremely difficult to trust this turnaround on the US part. Maybe it was the Qatar bombing.

Ah, have the peace plan headed by the guy that most of the world (outside of the self appointed “international community”) regards as a massive war criminal for his actions in the Middle East. Sounds just great.

There isn’t going to be lasting peace any time soon so that’s a naive thing to wish for.

There was no way a lasting peace deal was going to come out of this, not a chance. All that can be hoped for is that both sides put down their weapons so a long term solution can start to be formulated.

After two years of death and destruction, Hamas isn’t even going to be in as good a position as it was on Oct 6. All of those lives lost, buildings destroyed, total destruction for what? They’ve got a few thousand prisoners released, a people on their knees, total lack of infrastructure and a promise from Trump that if they don’t agree to and abuse to this plan he will support Israel in whatever it does. They’re not going to be allowed to be in power (they obviously still will be, just not so visibly or lucratively) and they won’t have any hostages. Hope it was worth it.

What do you think about it being headed up by someone like Merkel instead? Loads of international respect, has the time for it, less likely to line her own pockets and far more diplomatic and trustworthy.

The international peacekeepers are only to keep Gazans in check. There is no reciprocal deal to keep Israel in check, even though they are the ones suspected of committing war crimes continually for 2 years.

I'm hoping though that if there are international peacekeepers on the ground, Israel will be less trigger happy.

The problem with Trump and peace deals. Is that he is a bully. Instead of trying to find lasting peace he’s hoping to bully everyone into agreeing to this one

This was on the bbc. There is a danger to this too.

“During the remarks announcing it, Trump said he would back Israel doing "whatever" it felt was needed, if Hamas didn't agree to the plan.”

But in this time and place, with these people, I think the plan is as good as it could be.

…that’s kinda what’s happening, if Hamas agreed.

I don’t think it matters who the person is, just that this plan has been achieved.

I think Trump is an appalling, narcissistic, self-serving sociopath. I would happily never hear his name spoken ever again, but I would gladly ignore all of that if he can bring this war to an end. He doesn’t even need to secure lasting peace, just stop this phase so everyone can take a step back and stop killing each other.

They keep the bodies of children they've killed. Children! Have some humanity.

Trump made what clear?

That Israel won’t continue annexing the West Bank and will return stolen land?

or

That Israel won’t agree to stop annexing the West Bank?

Most of the negative comments seem to be around the lack of consultation of them by the Arab states.

Yes, yes, we know all terrorists are just civilians.

There is a reason Israel had a policy of not returning the bodies of terrorists killed in Israel. Maybe look it up. Terrible that the Palestinian terrorist ideology forced them to take that step.

The proposal has been delivered to hierarchy by Qatar and Egypt. This has been acknowledged.

Shame on them then for not bringing the war to an end

Houthi’s response as released to Israeli media.

Hamas has responded across several fronts as have the Houthi’s. It’s not largely positive.

This trading in corpses needs to stop on both sides. It's disgusting. There's no defence on either side to this.

It'll include civilians that get killed by Israel. There's a lot of them.

It'll also include people including kids that were held without charge tortured and killed in Israeli prisons.

You mean terrorists killed while conducting attacks on Israelis?

I'm not so sure about Hamas members being given safe passage out of Gaza.

Won't that just allow them to regroup abroad and conduct terrorist attacks from there? The US could also be a target.

Also wouldn't be surprised at all if the assumed living hostages are returned deceased with the excuse that they don't know what happened to them (didn't Hamas recently say they'd lost track of 2 hostages) or they were just killed in an air strike. A horrible thought and what would Israel's response be?