Lazar Berman, a well-known Israeli journalist, claims that Netanyahu has promised Trump to end the war in Gaza two weeks after the ceasefire with Iran begins. What’s more, Netanyahu has apparently agreed to Gaza being run in the foreseeable future by four Arab states. And there are many other troubling aspects of the postwar plan that can be found here: “Report: Netanyahu agreed to end Gaza war within two weeks after US strike on Iran,” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, June 26, 2025:
After the US strike on Iran earlier this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump agreed on a rapid end to the war in Gaza and expansion of the Abraham Accords, Israel Hayom reports, citing “a source familiar with the conversation.”
According to the outlet, Trump and Netanyahu agreed in a phone call that the war in Gaza would end within two weeks. Four Arab states, including the UAE and Egypt, would jointly govern the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas. The terror group’s leadership would be exiled, and all hostages would be released.
However, Arab allies have repeatedly asserted that they will not take part in the postwar rehabilitation of Gaza absent Israeli acquiescence to the Palestinian Authority gaining a foothold in Gaza as part of a pathway to a future two-state solution, but Netanyahu has flatly rejected any PA role in the Strip.
Moreover, Hamas’s leaders have also long rejected demands to go into exile….
Gazans who wish to emigrate would be absorbed by several unnamed countries, says the report.
Saudi Arabia and Syria would establish diplomatic ties with Israel, and other Arab and Muslim countries would follow suit.
Israel, for its part, would express its support for a future two-state solution, conditioned on reforms made by the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile, the leaders agreed that Washington will recognize Israeli sovereignty in some parts of the West Bank….
If Israel plans to accept that so-called “two-state solution,” that would be terrible. Such a state would be built on land surrendered by Israel. It would essentially require Israel to yield almost all of the territory in Judea and Samaria that it won in the Six-Day War, likely leaving Israel with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, and possibly stripped — it’s unclear what parts of Judea and Samaria Israel would be allowed to retain under this plan — of its control of the Jordan Valley, so essential to prevent invaders from the east from cutting Israel in two. Furthermore, Netanyahu has flatly ruled out any role by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, while the Arabs refuse to take control in Gaza without participation by the PA.
It is difficult to believe that Netanyahu would have agreed to a “two-state solution” that he has always opposed. Perhaps he is counting on Hamas leaders refusing to leave Gaza, or on the Palestinian Authority making outrageous demands, such as having all of Judea and Samaria included in their new “state,” with Jerusalem as its capital, or claiming the right to continue their “Pay-For-Slay” program that rewards past and incentivizes future terrorism, so as to get him off the hook. And nothing is said in this plan about the need for the complete demilitarization of the state of “Palestine.”
I would be amazed If this plan for a “two-state solution” ever comes to pass. 80% of Israeli Jews now are opposed to a “two-state solution.” After the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, they are no longer prepared to trade “land for peace.” They recognize that any Palestinian state will become a center for attacks on Israel. The jihad imperative remains. The Jewish state must not be allowed to exist on land that, because it was once possessed by the Muslim Arabs, must forever belong to Dar al-Islam. It is not treaties that will keep Israel safe from major assault, but, rather, the strategy of deterrence. Israel has to remain overwhelmingly stronger than its Arab enemies so as to keep the peace. Deterrence kept the Western world safe from Soviet aggression during the Cold War; deterrence is what will now keep the peace between Israel and the Muslim Arabs.
jewdog says
Reality has a way of blunting Trump’s grand plans. Partnering with Trump is like going into business with your mother-in-law, a very bad idea.
IP says
Sounds fake to me
somehistory says
As Seigfried and others often said to Maxwell Smart, “I find that hard to believe.”
It is all contrary to what the PM has said time and again about the war with hamas.
Since when can it be that a war can be ended at some certain date? War ends when one side is defeated, all combatants are dead or they surrender. No date can be set like this guy has claimed. It wouldn’t be the ‘end of the war,’ but if the PM actually has agreed to such, it just means that hamas gets to live on and keep fighting against Israel, killing and torturing and then lying about it all.
commonsense says
+1
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“War ends when one side is defeated, all combatants are dead or they surrender.”
Precisely!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, the report of this proposed plan did come up, and some of the details don’t match what’s described above
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/06/26/report-trump-netanyahu-prepare-comprehensive-middle-east-peace-plan
Proposal $5 above seems to preclude the idea of a Palestinian state being there in Judea or Samaria. Also, if Egypt, Emirates and 2 other Arab countries (say Saudi Arabia & Oman/Morocco) administer Gaza, I’m not sure how a Palestinian state is declared there. Unless these 4 countries agree to expel all Hamas & other jihadist from the territories and to the Arab countries that agree to take them. On point 2, when they say “multiple nations”, I hope they’re just talking multiple muslim nations, although I don’t like the idea of them going to countries like Indonesia or Kazakhstan
It’s more likely that once enough Palestinians have been dispersed to these other countries – be it Somalia, Libya, Qatar,…. they can be encouraged to try establishing their Palestinian states there, instead of Judea/Samaria or Gaza. In Somalia, they can be put in Puntland, which is already trying to secede, or in Tripolitania in Libya, which is under GNA control