Hamas Won’t Voluntarily Disarm, and Arab States Lack the Cohesion or Determination to Force It To

While celebrating the conclusion of the deal meant to end the war in Gaza—and Israel’s “historic gains” against its enemies—Hussein Aboubakr Mansour cautions against “self-congratulation,” warning that much remains to be determined. The parties, Mansour observes, have only agreed to proceed with the first phase of the agreement, which covers the third through fifth points of Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace plan: ending the fighting and exchanging hostages for Palestinian prisoners. But the most important might be the first—that “Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors”—and the sixth.