In the long, long history of bad ideas, there are bad ideas, there are really bad ideas (electing Joe Biden as president), and then there are catastrophically bad ideas (Napoleon invading Russia).
Then there's this: Hamas is advocating for their 10,000 so-called "police" to be included in any post-peace deal Gaza's law enforcement. This is a candidate for the Guinness Book of World Records under "bad ideas."
Hamas is seeking to incorporate its 10,000 police officers into a new US-backed Palestinian administration for Gaza, sources say on Tuesday, a demand likely to be opposed by Israel as the terror group debates whether to surrender its arms.
The terror group retains control of just under half of Gaza following an October ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump. The agreement ties further Israeli troop withdrawals to Hamas giving up its weapons.
We do all remember that Hamas is the group behind the October 7, 2023, attack into Israel, right? The attack that resulted in mass murder, along with other assorted atrocities that decorum does not allow me to describe here?
These are not people who should be allowed any civil authority, not just in Gaza, but anywhere. But this is what Hamas is proposing.
In a letter to staff on Sunday, seen by Reuters, Gaza's Hamas-run government urged its more than 40,000 supposed civil servants and security personnel to cooperate with the NCAG but assured them it was working to incorporate them into the new government.
That would include the roughly 10,000-strong Hamas-run police force, four sources familiar with the matter said, a demand that has not been previously reported. Many of them have been patrolling Gaza as Hamas reasserts its grip in areas under its control.
News flash: These people, Hamas and their lackeys, cannot be trusted. It's as simple as that. They. Can. Not. Be. Trusted.
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If there are any vestiges of sanity left in this world, the reaction of the United States and Israel should be simply to tell Hamas where to head in. Not one of these people should be allowed in civil law enforcement. I don't care what they were doing before October 7, 2023; I don't care what they have been doing since then, I don't care what they are doing now.
These people are terrorists. They aren't cops. They are enforcing the brutal orders of their Hamas overlords. And Hamas, if they follow true to form, and you can bet they will, will not adhere to any peace deal for any longer than it takes them to rearm, retrain, recruit, and plan their next atrocity. There will be another attack. It may not be this year or next, but there will be another attack, and it will derive from whatever traces of Hamas are left in this peace agreement.
As for allowing their guards, their lackeys, a role in maintaining the civil order, well, that's just crazy.
Note that there hasn't been (yet) any response from Israel and the United States, possibly because they are too busy facepalming so rapidly and repeatedly that it sounds like a standing ovation at the Royal Albert Hall. We can hope, and I suspect, the answer will be a more diplomatically worded version of "No! What are you, nuts?"
It's as I've been saying and writing since the October 7th attack: There will be no lasting peace in Gaza until Hamas is no longer a factor.
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