FUTURE OF JEWISH
Israel is the only country willing to defeat Hamas.
Mitch Schneider
February 22, 2026

…Twenty-six nations gathered. Seventeen billion dollars was pledged. The world’s cameras were there. And the force designed to implement everything agreed upon still cannot operate where it is needed most. Hamas noticed. The day after the meeting they issued a statement — not a surrender, not an apology, conditions. Any political process must begin, they said, with a total halt to Israeli aggression and the lifting of the blockade. Hamas has also formally confirmed that disarmament has never been discussed with them by any mediator. Their position remains what it has always been: They will not disarm until a state is established. One wonders what the $17 billion is for, exactly. But before we get to the mechanics of this framework, it’s worth asking a more fundamental question: not whether the structure will work, but whether it can. Because a diplomatic architecture that refuses to name the ideology it is trying to defeat is not a peace plan. It is a performance of one. And we have seen this performance before in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Lebanon. The West builds institutions, pledges money, trains local forces, and declines to confront the ideological root. Then it is surprised when the problem remains. READ MORE