“It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash” (Ezekiel 13:10)
Pontius Pilate asked Messiah Yeshua the rhetorical question, “What is truth?” (John 18:38). It’s time to consider another question: “What is peace?”
The definition of peace has changed over time. In Roman days, ‘Pax Romana’ (‘Roman peace’; 27 BC to 180 AD) meant the total crushing of all enemies and their unconditional surrender to a centralized imperial government on the banks of the River Tiber.
In post-WWII days, the term ‘Pax Americana’ describes the dominance of the USA (the world’s prime superpower) and their global system of relative international stability.
The Hebrew Prophets speak of a Last Days ‘Pax Davidica’ – a worldwide Messianic monarchy, the rule of David’s Son over all nations from a Jewish Jerusalem.
It is important to understand these distinctions as we consider recent developments in Israel.
Dividing the Land – what did the Hebrew Prophets say?
- “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat [‘YHVH judges’]. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up My land” (Joel 3:1-2)
- “Since you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although YHVH was there” (Ezekiel 35:10)
- “Now you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of YHVH: This is what ADONAI YHVH says: “Since the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,’ – therefore ADONAI YHVH says this: “Certainly in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with contempt of soul, in order to make its pastureland plunder” (Ezekiel 36:1-2, 5)
When any nation in the world attempts to conquer or control any portion of the Land which YHVH the God of Israel has promised exclusively to the Twelve Tribes of Jacob, the judgment dynamic laid out in these above scriptures kicks in. This includes the regions of Judea and Samaria (what is known today as the West Bank), Gaza (see Joshua 15:47), and the Golan (see Numbers 32:33; Deuteronomy 3:13; Joshua 20:8).
Recent Israeli declarations regarding Jewish ownership of the Promised Land
In a State Department briefing on November 7, 2023 (one month to the day after the October 7 Hamas massacre), Vedant Patel, U.S. State Department Principal Deputy Spokesman, stated: “Our viewpoint is that . . . Gaza is Palestinian land and it will remain Palestinian land. And generally speaking, we do not support reoccupation of Gaza,”
One day later, on Wednesday November 8, 2023, then-U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stated that the Gaza Strip must be handed over to the Palestinian Authority: The solution in Gaza “must include Palestinian-led governance and Gaza unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority,” Blinken said.
On Sunday January 26, 2024, Tel Aviv University’s Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences released a poll representing 605 Israeli adults (both Jews and Arabs) taken between January 8-15, 2024. Just over two in three Israeli Jews (about five million people) believe Israel should retain full security control over the Gaza Strip after the war with Hamas ends. According to this survey, 68.9% of the Jewish Israeli public favors Israel Defense Forces security control in Gaza, while only 2.2% think the Palestinian Authority should be in charge of security in the Strip. Approximately 53% of the Jewish respondents said they support the establishment of Israeli civilian communities in the coastal enclave.
On Sunday February 18, 2024, the Israeli Cabinet rejected any unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood, amid reports that Blinken and the Biden administration were actively considering such a move. Then-Energy Minister Eli Cohen, told Galei Tzahal (Israel’s Army Radio) that “if the price of expanding [the Abraham Accords] is a Palestinian state, then I’ll give up on the peace agreements.”
On Wednesday February 21, 2024 Israeli Knesset voted 99-11 to reject any unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood: “Israel utterly rejects international diktats regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians . . . Israel will continue to oppose unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.”
On that day Prime Minister Netanyahu declared: “This landmark vote underscores our collective resolve. We will not reward terrorism by unilateral recognition in response to the October 7 massacre, nor will we accept imposed solutions. This strong stance sends a powerful message to the world: Peace and security for Israel will be achieved through negotiations, not through unilateral actions. Today, we stand united more than ever.”
In a poll conducted Wednesday January 29, 2025 by Pulse of Israel, 71% of Israelis oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, and nearly 70% want to extend Israeli sovereignty over that area. This was a 7% increase in opposition (to the then-stated U.S. pro-PLO policy) since the previous May 2024 poll taken by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
According to a poll published by the Jewish People Institute (JPPI) on Tuesday March 11, 2025, 58% of Israeli Jews believe that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria contribute to the security of the entire country. Whereas in October 2024, a JPPI poll showed that 20% of Israeli Jews backed a Palestinian state, by May 2025 that number had plummeted to 11%. This indicates that 85% of Israel’s Jewish population believes that “there is no chance of a peace agreement with the Palestinians in the foreseeable future.”
On Wednesday July 23, 2025, the Israeli Knesset voted 71-13 in favor of a declaration calling upon the Government to apply sovereignty in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley. The declaration includes the following statement:
- “Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley are an inseparable part of Eretz Israel – the historical, cultural and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people. Hundreds and thousands of years before the state’s establishment, the forefathers and the prophets of the nation lived and acted in these regions, and the foundations of Jewish culture and faith were laid in them. Cities such as Hebron, Shechem, Shilo and Beit El are not just historical sites, they are a living expression of the continuity of Jewish existence in the land. Sovereignty in Eretz Israel is an inseparable part of the fulfillment of Zionism and the national vision of the Jewish people that has returned to its homeland. The massacre of … October 7, 2023, proved that the establishment of a Palestinian state poses an existential danger to Israel, its citizens and the entire region.”
These polls, reports and parliamentary rulings show that the majority of Israel’s population is adamantly opposed to a Palestinian state – whether in Gaza or the ‘West Bank’, whether run by Hamas or the PLO/PA – or by their proxies. Official US, European and international policies and strategies are 100% opposed to Israel’s clear stand here.
Recent American declarations regarding Jewish ownership of the Promised Land
In the Spring of 2025, Jared Kushner commissioned the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) to come up with a postwar plan. Blair began regular engagement with Trump officials, keeping them abreast of his progress as he met with leaders throughout the region and began ironing out details of his plan, the source familiar with discussions said. Blair’s proposal presented the terrorist Palestinian Authority/PLO as central to the plan, envisioning “the eventual unifying of all the Palestinian territory under the PA.”
On Tuesday August 17, 2025 POTUS Trump presided over a policy meeting on the Gaza war, receiving input from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Trump Middle East envoy Jared Kushner, a senior White House official said. That White House official casually described the session as “simply a policy meeting,” the type frequently held by Trump and his team: “The White House frequently holds policy meetings on a variety of issues, including Israel and Gaza. We have nothing additional to share at this time.”
Blair “has been putting together a post-war Gaza plan for the past several months, meeting with various regional stakeholders to get their input and support for his efforts, a source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel, adding that the former British premier has been in touch with both Kushner and Witkoff.”
But by September 18, 2025 more background details on that meeting were released:
- “US President Donald Trump has authorized Tony Blair to rally regional and international stakeholders around the former UK prime minister’s proposal to establish a postwar transitional body to govern the Gaza Strip until it can be handed over to the Palestinian Authority, four sources familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel. Blair began crafting the proposal in the early months of the war between Israel and the Hamas terror group . . . In recent months, the proposal has also evolved into a plan for effectively ending the war, as the Trump administration has reached the conclusion that agreement from major stakeholders regarding the body that will replace Hamas in Gaza is essential for securing a permanent ceasefire and hostage release deal, a US official and a second source familiar with the matter said. While Blair’s involvement in postwar Gaza planning has been previously revealed, along with his participation in an August 27 White House policy session on the matter, details of his proposal have not been publicized to date.
An anonymous U.S. official said that Trump’s original concept of “voluntary migration” in February – when he announced his plan to take over Gaza and permanently relocate the Strip’s entire population — had been jettisoned, and that the POTUS was going with Blair’s plan instead.
- American policy was morphing behind the scenes – from transferring Gaza’s terror-committed population and establishing a ‘Trump Towers’ Riviera, to an incremental stealth push to establishing what looks like will turn out to be a Hamas/PA/PLO-run state under the watchful eye and control of Pax Americana.
This 21-point document was leaked around September 17, 2025 by the U.S. State Department at U.N. meetings. Some of its points are paraphrased below, and include the following:
- The war between Israel and jihadi Hamas will be declared as ended, with Hamas continuing to occupy significant portions of the Gaza Strip.
- The IDF will withdraw from Gaza, and the Jewish state will promise never to occupy or annex this region promised by the God of Israel to the Jewish people in Joshua 15:47.
- A government of what is turning out to be Hamas-PA/PLO approved ‘technocrats’ will run Gaza as proxy for these terrorist jihadi groups.
- Jihad-sponsoring Islamic countries like Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia will fund and oversee that government. They will officially be tasked with guaranteeing that the jihadi terror groups ‘change their leopard-like spots’ and abandon jihadi operations.
Recent American bullet-point declarations
On September 26, 2025 POTUS Trump stated in the Oval Office:
- “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Nope, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen . . . I’m not going to allow it . . . I’m not allowing Israel to annex the West Bank. There’s been enough. It’s time to stop now, okay?”
On Wednesday October 22, 2025 Marco Rubio U.S. Secretary of State stated that a move by Israel’s parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank would threaten Pax Americana’s ceasefire plan for Gaza.
- “They passed a vote in the Knesset, but the President has made clear that’s not something we’d be supportive of right now. We think there’s potential for it to threaten the peace deal. They’re a democracy, people are going to have their votes, people are going to take these positions, but at this time we think it might be counterproductive.”
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance stated at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport on Thursday October 23, 2025, regarding Israel’s continued assertion and legislated avowal that Judea and Samaria (‘the West Bank’) are historically and biblically part of the Land of Israel:
- “That was weird. I was sort of confused by that. Now I actually asked somebody about it, and they told me that it was a symbolic vote, some symbolic vote to recognize or a symbolic vote to annex the West Bank. I mean, what I would say to that is when I asked about it, somebody told me it was a political stunt, that it had no practical significance, it was purely symbolic. I mean look, if it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt, and I personally take some insult to it. The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel. The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel. That will continue to be our policy. If people want to take symbolic votes, they can do that. But we certainly weren’t happy about it.”
On Thursday October 23, 2025, French journalist Sonia Dridi asked POTUS Trump:
- DRIDI: “Yesterday, there was a vote at the Knesset in Israel on annexing the West Bank. Do you see it as a challenge to your peace efforts?” TRUMP: “The West Bank is, don’t worry about the West Bank. Israel’s not going to do anything with the West Bank. Okay? Don’t worry about it. Is that your question? They’re not going to do anything with the West Bank. Don’t worry about it. Israel’s doing very well. They’re not going to do anything with it.”
America has gone on record repeatedly and quite clearly that it will not allow Israel to settle portions of the Land which YHVH promised to the sons and daughters of Jacob. The UK, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait are all on board with this latest expression of Pax Americana.
- To speak plainly, if Israel tries to hold on to portions of the Promised Land (like Gaza and the West Bank), the following Middle Eastern agreements will, like castles made of sand, crumble into the sea – The Camp David Accords, The Oslo Accords, The Abraham Accords, and this latest Tony Blair/America 21-point Gaza plan. But YHVH’s promises regarding the Jewish nature and destiny of these territories remain unchangeable (see Romans 11:28-29; Amos 9:15; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 32:41, 44)
Recently expressed American intentions regarding U.S. control of Israeli and other Middle Eastern governmental policies
On October 15, 2025 POTUS Trump stated in an interview with TIME:
- “So the long story short is that we took the [Iranian] bully out of play … We signed the [peace] deal … first time in 3,000 years . . . that’s the whole thing in a nutshell.”
- “And I said to Bibi, ‘Bibi, you can’t fight the world. You can fight individual battles, but the world’s against you. And Israel is a very small place compared to the world.’ You know, I stopped him, because he would have just kept going. It could have gone on for years. It would have gone on for years. And I stopped him, and everybody came together when I stopped, it was amazing . . . He had to stop because the world was going to stop him. You know, I could see what was happening. You could see what was happening. And Israel was becoming very unpopular. And that’s what I meant when I said ‘the world.’ There are a lot of powers out there, okay, powers outside of the region.”
- TIME: “You told Netanyahu you will not allow him to annex the West Bank. There are still forces in his coalition who are pressing for it. I’m just wondering what, what are the consequences if they move forward?” POTUS: “It won’t happen. It won’t happen. It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. And you can’t do that now. We’ve had great Arab support. It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. It will not happen. Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.”
- “But the hostages were paramount. Getting those hostages out – you saw the people. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people in the square [i.e., the anti-government Kaplanist demonstrations at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv]. Nothing to do with winning the war. Nothing to do. ‘We just want our hostages back’”
- “The Board of Peace is going to be a very powerful group of people, and it’s going to have a lot of power in terms of the Middle East. The Middle East has never been brought together. It’s really been brought together now.”
- “We don’t have the Iran threat anymore. We don’t have any threats anymore. We have peace in the Middle East.”
Trump openly discussed the possibility of forcing Israel to release Marwan Barghouti, a prominent PA/PLO/Fatah terrorist leader serving multiple life sentences in Israeli prisons for planning and overseeing tens of jihadi attacks, some of which murdered four Israelis and one Greek Orthodox monk during the Second Intifada. “So I’ll be making a decision” about that, he casually mentioned toward the end of the TIME interview.
Recent American statements regarding coordinated cooperation with super-wealthy jihadi terror groups and sponsors
POTUS Trump is known for his deal-making, his Middle Eastern financial connections and his family and partner business networks (son-in-law Jared Kushner; Steve Witkoff; etc.) with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc. There is understandable concern here regarding how these connections might influence American political, financial and military strategies regarding Israel and Middle Eastern relations.
POTUS Trump makes no secret of his appreciation for the wealth and power of these contacts, pouring effusive public flattery on these leaders. One recent example is his FOX News interview on Maria Bartiromo’s Roll Call, from which the following quotes are selected:
- “And all of those great Arab nations, I mean, you look at Saudi Arabia and Qatar and UAE … And they have been fantastic … So I have been friendly with them for years … And it’s vast wealth. Those countries are incredibly wealthy. And they put out money. They invest money, et cetera, et cetera. They have tremendous oil wealth… But I got to know them very well during the first term.”
- “Qatar – the emir, who’s a fantastic man, to me, he’s, like, a really fantastic person. And he has to play it close to the vest a little bit. He has to. Anybody would, anybody that’s smart. And he’s very smart. The king of Saudi Arabia has done unbelievable. Now, you have the king and then you have the son, who is – and the king is fantastic. He’s got a son who is phenomenal.”
- “[Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince] Mohammed. And Mohammed’s going to be a great leader for many years. And then you have UAE, and he is incredible. They’re all incredible people. But, sometimes, people don’t realize that. And they really helped us a lot. Qatar is the one that’s most vulnerable in that sense – but they had great courage… And the Crown Prince, who’s also the prime minister and the king in waiting, his father is such a wonderful man. He’s still – he’s still healthy and he’s still very sharp.”
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are on record as having been or still being the main sponsors of Hamas, Syria’s former ISIS leader al-Julani, Afghanistan’s Taliban, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Lebanese and Iraqi Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis, al-Qa’eda, ISIS, etc. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, as Hamlet once said – and certainly something is amiss with the spiritual condition of Pax Americana.
In a public prayer on Sunday March 30, 2025, the President of Turkey (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan) declared: “May Allah, for the sake of his name … destroy and devastate Zionist Israel.”
America is banqueting with the Jewish people’s enemies – who happen to be America’s enemies as well.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday September 29, 2025: “To reach a reasonable deal for both sides [Israel and Hamas], both sides have to give up a little bit and might leave the table a little bit unhappy, but that is ultimately how we are going to end this conflict.”
Tragically, there are deep and foundational misunderstandings in the U.S. State Department regarding Middle East realities and the jihadi worldview. What is also lacking is a solid understanding and appreciation for biblical perspectives as well as a commitment to being guided by God’s word. Such realities are mirrored in the joint statements of Trump and Netanyahu at the White House on September 29, 2025; Trump’s speech on October 13, 2025 at the Israeli Knesset; the October 15, 2025 TIME interview with POTUS Trump; and the CBS Lesley Stahl interview on Sunday October 19, 2025 with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Selected quotes follow:
Trump TIME quotes:
- “Well, you know, you have 3,000 years of history, and in the case of the Middle East, there’s tremendous hatred, there’s tremendous dislike, there’s tremendous distrust among everybody.”
- “And they would fight each other for 1,000 years under different names and different religions, but they would fight each other for many, many centuries, and they were the same. They were the same power. So they’d fight, and then they’d come to a standstill, and then they’d fight again.”
- “Everybody’s open to peace . . . first time in 3,000 years.”
- “Right now they’re killing gangs. But you know, at what point do the gangs morph into political opponents, right?”
- “Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas – You know, he’s not a young guy, but he looks fantastic, right? … And he’s respected by the Palestinians. He is respected as a sage … Well, I’ve always gotten along with him. I’ve always found him reasonable, but he’s probably not. But I have always found him reasonable, like, you know, you saw him come up to me and couldn’t have been friendlier.”
- “I have great respect and like for the king, as you know, we have a great relationship, and I think Saudi Arabia will lead the way toward the Abraham Accords.”
- “We don’t have the Iran threat anymore. We don’t have any threats anymore. We have peace in the Middle East . . . Well, I think we’ve reshaped it, and I think that it’s now just growing in a beautiful manner. So the question is what happens later? … It’s going to only get better and stronger, and it’s going to be perfect.”
Trump White House quotes:
- “This is a big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization. . . . Gaza is one thing, but we’re talking about much beyond Gaza. The whole deal, everything getting solved. It’s called peace in the Middle East. But it’s just a part of the bigger picture, which is peace in the Middle East, and let’s call it eternal peace in the Middle East.”
- “President of Turkey, President Erdoğan — he’s a friend of mine, strong man, but a good man.”
- [Peace for the] “first time in thousands of years, I think you can probably say, if you really look into it, if you study back, if you’re a scholar, you would say thousands of years.”
- “We’ll have a board. One of the people that wants to be on the board is the UK former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Good man, very good man … Hamas and other terrorist factions will play no role in the board, but they’ll play no role in the governance of Gaza at all, directly or indirectly.”
- “The promise of a new Middle East is so clearly within our reach.”
Trump Knesset quotes:
- “This is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death, and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God. It’s the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I believe that so strongly. This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East … Like the USA right now, it will be the golden age of Israel, and the golden age of the Middle East. It’s gonna work together.”
- “Israel’s security will no longer be threatened in any way, shape, or form. Israel, with our help, has won all that they can by force of arms. You’ve won. I mean, you’ve won. Now it’s time to translate these victories against terrorists on the battlefield into the ultimate prize of peace and prosperity for the entire Middle East.”
- “It should now be clear to everyone throughout the region that decades of fomenting terrorism and extremism, Jihadism and anti-Semitism have not worked. They haven’t worked. They’ve been a disaster. They’ve just killed. They’ve killed. They’ve backfired completely and totally … The world is loving Israel again.”
- “New bonds of friendship, cooperation, and commerce will join Tel Aviv to Dubai, Haifa, to Beirut, Jerusalem to Damascus, and from Israel to Egypt, from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, from India to Pakistan, from Indonesia to Iraq, from Syria to Bahrain, Turkey, to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates to Oman and Armenia to Azerbaijan, another war that I just settled. Israel, America, and all of the nations of the Middle East will soon be safer, stronger, greater and more prosperous than ever before.”
CBS interview Kushner/Witkoff quotes:
Kushner explains in the interview that what is needed to solve the conflict between Israel and jihadi Hamas is ‘pragmatic realism’ – “figuring out how to make deals, not lecture the world.”
Kushner and Witkoff believe that they understand and have a good handle on Islamist jihadi culture:
- “We have trusted relationships in the Arab world and even in Israel, where we’ve both done business in the past. But that means they trust us. We understand their cultures. We understand how they work. And we’re able to use that knowledge and skill set to try to do things that advance the world.”
- “You know, we were tryin’ to build trust between people who didn’t trust each other because of decades of distrust … When I first started looking at this file, I spoke to everyone who’d been involved in the Middle East diplomacy for the 20 years prior . . . And the way they were explaining things to me just made no sense. And the foundational idea that I came to is that people just wanna be able to live with security and live freely. They wanna be together. They wanna have economic opportunity. They want their children to be able to live a better life. And they wanna safely and freely practice whatever religion they choose to practice. And that for me was really what it was about. And so when you think about everything through that light, you have all these old historical conflicts, or Balkanization of communication, and it really is just getting people to focus on how do we make the future better, versus getting stuck in these old conflicts.”
- “I believe over time Israel and Qatar could actually turn out to be incredible allies in the region to advance things forward.”
- “At the end of the day, it goes back to the issues were pretty simple . . . And then we had to write all these complex words to deal with the 50 years of stupid word games that everyone in that region is so used to playing.”
- “Lemme give you sort of the crux of what’s at the bottom: …There’s so much mistrust between Hamas and the Israelis.”
- Hamas “are hardened guys who have been through two years of war … [Our dialogue] turned from a negotiation with a terrorist group to seeing two human beings kind of showing a vulnerability with each other.”
- And I was saying to [the Israelis], “At some point you gotta let it go. You just can’t play the victim all the time.”
- “The biggest message that we’ve tried to convey to the Israeli leadership now is that, now that the war is over – if you want to integrate Israel with the broader Middle East, you have to find a way to help the Palestinian people thrive and do better.”
- “There’s been a long war. The war’s over.”
Recent establishment of U.S. intelligence bases on Israeli territory to monitor (spy on) and control Israeli and Hamas activities in Gaza
The Gaza peace plan (also the October 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, the Israel–Hamas ceasefire, or the 20-point plan) was drafted on September 29, 2025, signed on October 9, 2025, and activated on October 10, 2025. Since then the exact nature of its focus and scope have been coming to light bit by bit, and the following is a breakdown of its nature and goals:
- “CENTCOM October 21, 2025; Release Number 20251021-01. TAMPA, Fla. – The U.S. Central Command opened a Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Israel, Oct. 17, marking the formal establishment of a main coordination hub for Gaza assistance five days after world leaders signed a U.S.-brokered plan to permanently end the war between Israel and Hamas.”
US Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said on Thursday October 23, 2025: “The CMCC enables partner nations, NGOs, international institutions, and private-sector stakeholders to get on the same page … We’re talking about international stakeholders, humanitarian groups, and private-sector actors all working together.” As an afterthought/postscript, Hawkins added: “Naturally, we’re working with the IDF. They have representation just like many other nations and organizations do.”
“The CMCC will be under U.S. leadership, but it will also have representatives from multiple countries and stakeholders, such as the United Nations and private aid groups. U.S. personnel will monitor everything going in and out of Gaza … The CMCC will also monitor implementation of the ceasefire agreement, featuring an operations floor that allows staff to assess real-time developments in Gaza.”
An unnamed Arab diplomat said that Tony Blair has faced an uphill battle getting Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries (euphemistically labeled ‘regional stakeholders’) on board, as these condition their support on the creation of an irreversible pathway to a future Palestinian state. The plan is being crafted to “ensure that the decisions are aligned and consistent with the eventual unifying of all the Palestinian territory under the Palestinian Authority [PLO]” as well as eventually being bound “by a UN Security Council resolution.”
The report comes as the US expands its coalition of partners involved in monitoring and sustaining the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, with other countries sending representatives. In addition to Jordan, the UK, Germany, Denmark, and Canada, the forces of Australia, France, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates have joined the initiative, a US official confirmed to The Times of Israel on Friday October 24, 2025. Two of these countries (Australia and France) unilaterally recognized a Palestinian state last month over Israeli objections, while Spain did the same the year before.
The Times of Israel notes:
- “The United States has reportedly begun deploying surveillance drones over the Gaza Strip to ensure that Israel and Hamas are complying with the ceasefire, The New York Times reported Saturday. The move comes as further nations sent representatives to help monitor US-led efforts to enforce the fragile truce. According to the Times, citing two Israeli military officials and a US defense official, the US military has begun flying drones over the Gaza Strip to monitor the ceasefire. The flights are being conducted with Israel’s consent. The report noted that the US has in the past flown drone missions over Gaza in a bid to help locate the hostages, however, these flights appear to signal the Trump administration’s desire to verify developments in Gaza separately from Israeli intelligence channels. ‘This is a very intrusive version of US monitoring on a front where Israel perceives an active threat,’ Daniel B. Shapiro, a former US Ambassador to Israel under the Obama administration, told the Times. ‘If there was total transparency and total trust between Israel and the US, there wouldn’t be a need for this,’ Shapiro said.”
An International Stabilization Force (ISF), a multinational security deployment, will be established composed of Arab and international partners to help provide security, train a new Palestinian police force, and oversee the demilitarization and redevelopment of Gaza. Their mission is intended to facilitate Israel’s staged withdrawal from the territory (i.e., retreat). These include the UK, Canada, Germany, Denmark, France, Spain, Germany, Australia, Jordan, UAE, etc. As well, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Australia, Malaysia, Greece and Cyprus have reportedly shown interest in contributing to the ISF.
One of Israel’s top newspapers comments in an op-ed: “In recent months, Israel has effectively become a U.S. protectorate: decisions are made in Washington, directives come from there, and Jerusalem is compelled to follow suit. In Kiryat Gat, the new international command center for implementing the Trump Agreement is already operational.” The site already hosts troops from the above-noted countries. “The Americans, now firmly in charge, want to know everything happening in Gaza. With their own intelligence network, they often instruct the IDF to cancel operations they view as endangering the cease-fire.”
Meir Ben Shabbat, head of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy and a former head of Israel’s National Security Council, wrote in the Israel Hayom daily that Israel “must eliminate the vagueness concerning headquarters and mediation and coordination entities and explain what the center will actually contribute toward achieving Israel’s objectives in Gaza.”
The new Pax Americana base (staffed by 200 U.S. soldiers) is situated in the industrial park of Kiryat Gat, a town in the northern Negev not far from biblical Gath – where Goliath (King David’s nemesis) once lived and sallied forth to attack the armies of King Saul. This is the Gath made famous in David’s funeral elegy over Saul and Jonathan: “How the mighty have fallen! Tell it not in Gath! Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon – lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice” (1 Samuel 1:19-20).
David’s caution echoes down through the corridors of time, reminding us that “it is better to take refuge in YHVH than to trust in people. It is better to take refuge in YHVH than to trust in noblemen” (Psalm 118:8-9).
Jeremiah adds a sobering word: “They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace” (Jeremiah 6:14).
When U.S. Vice President JR Vance visited Jerusalem’s City of David on Wednesday October 22, 2025, he signed the guestbook, writing: “To the staff of the City of David: thank you for preserving this place of world history for all the children of Abraham to admire and be inspired.” While the VP was perhaps expressing noble sentiments – describing Jews, Christians and Muslims memorializing the international spiritual appeal of a generic David – Vance may be surprised to learn that most Arabs across the globe are not at all physically related to Abraham (see my book ‘Jews, Arabs and the Middle East: A Messianic Perspective’; available at www.davidstent.org), and that the Hebrew Prophets describe the City of David as the soon-to-be reborn and exclusively Jewish capital city of the entire planet (see Isaiah 2:1-4).
The Scriptures describe a prophetic vision yet future when the God of Jacob will establish a Pax Davidica – a Messianic Empire – when YHVH will totally crush all enemies of the Jewish people (see Psalm 2), and when those enemies (like Hamas) will unconditionally surrender to Messiah Yeshua’s centralized imperial government – whether in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria, or on the banks of Jerusalem’s prophesied mighty river (see Isaiah 8:6-8; Ezekiel 47:1-12):
- “A Psalm of David. Blessed be YHVH, my rock who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle – My shield and He in whom I take refuge” (Psalm 144:1-2).
- “YHVH lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation. O God, you grant me vengeance and subject entire nations to me. You free me from my enemies and exalt me above my adversaries, delivering me from violent men.” (2 Samuel 22:47-49).
Recent American actions are paving the way for another October 7, another Israeli 9/11
Dr Haggai Ben-Artzi (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law), has been outspoken in recent days about the moral abomination of releasing Hamas terrorists:
- “We are caught in a chain reaction. We erred with the Jibril Deal forty years ago and should have learned our lesson. Rabin later regretted that mistake when he realized it had led to the First Intifada, with hundreds killed and thousands wounded. A rational person learns from the past, but for forty years already we’ve been making deals, and each time the price that we pay after the deal is greater, because we are not only releasing the next terror leaders but also creating motivation to continue the murder and massacre and kidnappings because it pays to kill Jews.”
He added that the Israeli public is experiencing a kind of ‘psychosis,’ demanding the return of a child now held in Gaza while ignoring and erasing the future price that will be paid:
- “We’ve been in a psychosis since the [1973] Yom Kippur War, which traumatized us with thousands of dead. We’ve entered a mindset of surrendering and retreating just to get a little quiet. This path leads to disaster, because the enemy understands our weak point – and they will exploit it completely … The next disaster will be far worse. We cannot even imagine the next disaster.”
How shall we then pray?
- Pray for revelation, discernment, clarity of thought and Bible-based courage be given to leaders and decision makers involved in Gaza-related issues.
- Pray for the bolstering of the Israeli people’s prophetic courage and discernment
- Pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth!
Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.
In Messiah Yeshua,
Avner Boskey
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