YONI BEN MENACHEM --  Phase Two centers on two core components: deploying an international stabilization force and fully disarming Hamas.

According to senior security sources, Qatar and Turkey — leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood axis and political patrons of Hamas — are pushing a scheme that would allow Hamas to keep its weapons and maintain covert control over Gaza. Their proposal to Washington includes only symbolic steps meant to create the illusion of disarmament. Among the ideas floated: transferring Hamas’s heavy weapons to the Palestinian Authority or Egypt, or storing them in supervised depots inside Gaza.

These proposals, however, completely ignore Hamas’s vast tunnel network — hundreds of kilometers where the group manufactures rockets, mortars, explosives, and additional weapons. While Israel demands immediate and total disarmament, Qatar and Turkey propose a drawn-out, one-to-two-year process, which Israel firmly rejects.