ArchitectGuy on Israel

MIDDLE EAST FORUM
The Ghost of Gaza: How Hamas Survived
Gregg Roman
October 10, 2025

…The fundamental error underlying this agreement is treating Phase One and Phase Two as sequential components of a unified plan when they are incompatible frameworks forced into artificial sequencing. Phase One assumes Hamas can be a reliable partner in hostage release and governance transition. Phase Two assumes Hamas can be coerced into disarmament and permanent political marginalization. These assumptions cannot simultaneously be true. Either Hamas retains sufficient power and legitimacy to function as a governing authority capable of releasing hostages—in which case it will never agree to complete disarmament—or it has been sufficiently defeated that it lacks capacity for governance, in which case Phase One’s mechanisms become unworkable. Israel has chosen the worst of both approaches: granting Hamas legitimacy through negotiation while lacking the leverage to compel compliance with the agreement’s stated objectives. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Trump Gaza plan on verge of collapse, warns Saudi Arabia and UAE Arab and American sources have confirmed that the Sunni axis, which also includes Bahrain, has warned the White House that the Trump Gaza plan is in danger of falling apart. “As long as Hamas retains its weapons, we will not continue with the process,” the message states. Communications sent to Washington argue that the leniency shown by mediators has allowed the terrorist organization to evade its obligations.

VOICE OF ZION
The hostages are coming home!
Yonah E
October 9, 2025

…Today the Middle East wakes up redrawn — not with ink on paper, but with courage, deterrence, and divine wrath. The lesson is eternal: you touch a Jew, you pay a price. You burn a kibbutz, your city burns back. You hold our babies hostage — you will meet soldiers who move like thunder and carry the fury of 4,000 years. When I made Aliyah last year, I thought I knew what Zionism meant. I didn’t. I know it now. It’s standing on the soil of your ancestors while rockets fall, and still sending your kids to school. It’s burying friends and still raising the flag higher. It’s loving this land so much that fear becomes irrelevant. I walk through Efrat and see a people reborn in their own ashes — families who lost everything but refuse to bow. This is the new Jew. We are not the broken ghosts of 1938. We are not the frightened whispers of the Warsaw Ghetto. We are the descendants of Maccabees, armed with tanks and Torah, with faith and fire. READ MORE

MIDDLE EAST FORUM Gregg Roman: Israel’s Hostages Come Home, But At What Price? The arithmetic of this exchange should give everyone pause. Israel will release over 1,700 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 serving life sentences for the most heinous acts of terrorism. These aren’t stone-throwers or protesters. These are the architects of the Park Hotel Passover massacre, the planners of the Sbarro pizzeria bombing, the orchestrators of attacks that turned school buses into crime scenes. Each has blood on their hands and expertise in their heads. Hamas is trading 48 hostages—20 living and 28 dead—for 1,700 experienced operatives—a massive force multiplication that transforms tactical defeat into strategic victory. Every released prisoner returns to Gaza or the West Bank as a hero, a symbol of resistance, armed with years of additional training and burning with renewed purpose.

FUTURE OF JEWISH We are all October 8th Jews now If October 7th was the day that broke the Jewish world, October 8th was the day that remade us. The images emanating from southern Israel on October 7, 2023 — the burned bodies, the stolen children, the laughter of murderers — tore open something ancient and fragile in the Jewish soul. On October 8th, when the carnage was still fresh, we began to see with devastating clarity what we had long tried not to see: that the safety, belonging, and sympathy we once believed we had earned in the modern world were illusions. The spell was broken. October 8th was when the world changed for Jews, and when Jews began to change for the world. For decades, many of us Jews believed that the Holocaust had finally secured us a place among the civilized.

WALL STREET JOURNAL
America’s Debt to Israel
Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh
October 6, 2025

Two years after Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities, the U.S. should be grateful to Israel. The Jewish state has defanged a range of militant actors who despise the U.S. and have killed Americans. Yet the Gaza war, with its substantial civilian casualties, has turned much of the Democratic Party against Israel and fractured European-Israeli relations. Israel’s enemies on the left depict the Jewish state as an illegitimate pro-Trump “apartheid” state, and the war has also stirred anti-Israel sentiments in corners of the American right…But Israel’s fight against Hamas has proved different from the Six-Day War. Hamas, Israel’s savviest enemy, borrowed a page from the playbook of past guerrilla forces. By shielding themselves with civilians, the terrorists have been able to use innocents’ deaths to mobilize the international community against the Jewish state. Democracies are particularly vulnerable to this cruel tactic.  READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA US sends 200 troops to Israel to monitor Gaza ceasefire The US is deploying 200 troops to Israel to monitor Gaza ceasefire and aid flow, as part of Trump’s peace plan. Troops will coordinate with allies and IDF, but won’t enter Gaza.