It’s Wednesday, December 31, and Donald Trump says there will be “hell to pay” if Hamas does not disarm within a “very short period.”
According to an exclusive report from Israel Hayom, that “short period” is two months. But will that make any difference?
The report says Trump has now established metrics for the terror group’s dismantlement. That’s right—until now, there weren’t any benchmarks. That gap gave Hamas plenty of room for creative reinterpretation of the agreement. You might remember when “disarmament” turned into “freezing” weapons, and a new distinction between “heavy” versus “light” armaments materialized.
So far, the only new criterion we know of concerns the destruction of the tunnels—and that’s not a small detail. The tunnel network is Hamas’s deadliest weapon. Unlike Kalashnikovs, you can’t just smuggle in a few new tunnels once you’ve handed the old ones to an international force.