{"id":119505,"date":"2025-02-27T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119505"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:58:59","slug":"27-05-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119505","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Home Run: Neutralize Hamas, Qatar, Houthis, Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/images\/gatestone-logo-1000.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/21433\/neutralize-hamas-qatar-houthis-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump&#8217;s Home Run: Neutralize Hamas, Qatar, Houthis, Iran<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Lawrence A. Franklin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<ul class=\"content_preface_bullets\">\n<li><strong>&#8220;[Iran&#8217;s] Operation True Promise 3 will be carried out at the right time, with precision, and in a scale sufficient to destroy Israel and raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.&#8221; \u2014 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Ebrahim Jabbari, February 2025.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Trump decision to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization would go a long way toward making it difficult for its many offshoots to continue supporting it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Even more urgent is for the Trump administration to neutralize Hamas, Qatar, Iran, Hezbollah and the Houthis &#8212; to limit their ability to keep on destabilizing the entire region, as well as to curtail the Houthis&#8217; stranglehold on global shipping. The policy is certainly congruent with the long-held American principle of maintaining the international freedom of navigation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The move would also send a warning to China not to continue its aggressive effort to gain control of the world&#8217;s critical sea lines near Taiwan, Australia, the Philippines and Japan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/pics\/5300.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Iran, reportedly weeks away from a nuclear weapons breakout, is still threatening the &#8220;total annihilation of Israel.&#8221; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Major General Ebrahim Jabbari this month said: &#8220;Operation True Promise 3 will be carried out at the right time, with precision, and in a scale sufficient to destroy Israel and raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.&#8221; Pictured: IRGC commander-in-chief Major General Hossein Salami speaks during a memorial service beneath portraits of slain Hezbollah leader Hasssan Nasrallah (L) Iranian general Qassem Soleimani (C), and Nasrallah&#8217;s successor Hashem Safieddine at Tehran&#8217;s Grand Mosque. (Photo by Atta Kenare\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Iran, reportedly\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/tv\/mohammad-shamas-fmr-manar-tv-correspondent-iran-nuke-bomb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weeks<\/a>\u00a0away from a nuclear weapons breakout, is still\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/videos\/iran-threatens-total-annihilation-israel-operation-true-promise-3-011-4223334.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatening<\/a>\u00a0the &#8220;total annihilation of Israel.&#8221; To that end, the regime&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced &#8220;Operation True Promise 3&#8221; \u2013 another rocket and ballistic missile air\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/videos\/iran-threatens-total-annihilation-israel-operation-true-promise-3-011-4223334.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assault<\/a>\u00a0on Israel. IRGC Major General Ebrahim Jabbari this month\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202502215094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>: &#8220;Operation True Promise 3 will be carried out at the right time, with precision, and in a scale sufficient to destroy Israel and raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Meanwhile, Qatar, possibly capitalizing on the reluctance of Egypt and Jordan to receive Gazans, seems to be trying to come up with its own peace plan to derail President Donald Trump&#8217;s. It most likely designed to keep its client, beneficiary and Muslim Brotherhood cohort, Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip. The invaluable website MEMRI\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/reports\/qatar-seeks-sweep-away-trumps-gaza-plan-so-called-peace-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;After World War II, tens of millions of refugees and displaced persons in Europe needed to be resettled, among them Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. The UN and the international community rushed to help them.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;In 1949, there was a<\/span> new wave of refugees \u2013 the Arab Palestinians \u2013 that resulted from their failed attempt, along with that of seven Arab states, to destroy the newborn State of Israel. Over the years, there were still more refugees from new regions of crisis \u2013 northern Cyprus (1974), Yugoslavia (1990-1992).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;A single global policy for all refugees was set: resettlement in their new locations. But for the Palestinians, another principle was devised \u2013 the principle of return to their previous locations, in complete disregard of the State of Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;In order to implement the return of the Palestinians, a special UN agency was created: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East \u2013 UNRWA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It is no wonder that over the years UNRWA&#8217;s education system taught children to fight Israel, to allow all Palestinians everywhere in the world to return to it to completely destroy it, and to establish Palestine &#8216;from the river to the sea.&#8217; And it is no wonder that UNRWA teachers participated in the October 7, 2023 massacre of Israeli civilians \u2013 women, children, and the elderly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Trump plan has brought all actors back to the 1948 moment. No principle of return. The rules for all other refugees in the world should apply to the Palestinians of Gaza as well. The natural solution for them should have been their rehabilitation in Gaza, not relocating them into Israel. This could have been implemented had there been a guarantee that Gaza attacks on Israel would cease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;But the Palestinians want to eat their cake and have it too. They want both rehabilitation in Gaza and the implementation of return into Israel through violent means. This has been reiterated by Hamas leaders throughout the war. For example, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said that the &#8216;Al-Aqsa Flood&#8217; \u2013 the Hamas name for its October 7 massacre, &#8216;was just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth.&#8217; Adding &#8216;Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs,&#8217; he concluded: &#8216;On October 7, October 10, October 1,000,000 \u2013 everything we do&#8217; to eliminate Israel &#8216;is justified.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Hamas cannot continue as a military or government force,&#8221; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/standing-alongside-netanyahu-rubio-says-trump-is-clear-the-hostages-must-be-released-it-s-not-optional-hamas-must-be-eradicated\/ar-AA1z9o6P?ocid=BingNewsSerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a>\u00a0on February 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;And frankly, as long as it stands as a force that can govern or as a force that can administer or as a force that can threaten by use of violence, peace becomes impossible. They must be eliminated. It must be eradicated.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In addition, Houthi leader Abdel Malik\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/2\/11\/yemens-houthis-warn-they-are-ready-to-attack-israel-if-gaza-war-resumes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged<\/a>\u00a0in a television address on February 11 address that targets if Israel resumes the war in Gaza, his Yemen-based group will resume attacks on Israeli troops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced if the promised hostage release does not materialize as promised, he will order the IDF to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/netanyahu-gaza-war-hamas-hostage-release-delay-trump-hell-palestinians-rcna191805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resume military operations<\/a>\u00a0against Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hamas-accuses-israel-violating-ceasefire-delays-release-hostages-2028922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained<\/a>\u00a0on February 10 what should happen if Hamas does not free all the hostages:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;As far as I&#8217;m concerned, if all of the hostages aren&#8217;t returned by Saturday at 12 o&#8217;clock &#8212; I think it&#8217;s an appropriate time \u2013 I would say, cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out. I&#8217;d say they ought to be returned by 12 o&#8217;clock on Saturday. And if they&#8217;re not returned \u2013 all of them, not in drips and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two \u2013 by Saturday at 12 o&#8217;clock. And after that, I would say, all hell is going to break out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Saturday at 12, we want them all back. I&#8217;m speaking for myself. Israel can override it, but from myself, Saturday at 12 o&#8217;clock, and if they&#8217;re not, they&#8217;re not here, all hell is going to break out.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Netanyahu, evidently eager to see as many of the approximately 59 remaining hostages &#8211;around half of whom are presumed dead &#8212; released as soon as possible before any more are murdered by their captors, did not adopt Trump&#8217;s position. He\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/hosting-rubio-netanyahu-says-gates-of-hell-will-surely-open-if-all-hostages-not-freed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warned<\/a>, however, that if all the hostages were not returned, &#8220;the gates of hell will be open.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">If the Houthis resume their piratical assaults on international shipping, it is surely an opportunity for the Trump administration to reverse the Biden regime&#8217;s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/op-eds\/joe-bidens-failed-strategy-against-the-houthi-threat-in-the-red-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">failure<\/a>\u00a0to restrain the group, which Trump recently\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/01\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-re-designates-the-houthis-as-a-foreign-terrorist-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">re-designated<\/a>\u00a0as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hamas spokesmen have\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/hamas-accuses-israel-ceasefire-violations-delay-release-hostages-118653637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a>, incorrectly, that Israel has not lived up to its promises &#8220;to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid,&#8221; when in fact the aid was delivered to the border but the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/top-un-humanitarian-official-describes-the-current-situation-in-gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations<\/a>\u00a0failed to distribute it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Houthi threat presumably includes the resumption of its attacks on shipping in the Suez Canal and Red Sea which\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfat.govt.nz\/en\/trade\/mfat-market-reports\/the-importance-of-the-suez-canal-to-global-trade-18-april-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">serves<\/a>\u00a0about 12% of world trade and 30% of global container traffic. In November 2023, the Houthis\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marineinsight.com\/shipping-news\/houthis-end-attacks-on-u-s-u-k-ships-israeli-linked-vessels-still-at-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attacked<\/a>\u00a0more than 100 vessels, as well as launching drones and missiles toward Israel. Houthi missiles have\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/houthis-boast-they-fired-missile-drone-at-tel-aviv-and-ashkelon-vow-to-launch-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">targeted<\/a>\u00a0Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ships forced to navigate around the southern tip of Africa to avoid Houthi attacks, rather than using the Suez Canal,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Blogs\/Articles\/2024\/03\/07\/Red-Sea-Attacks-Disrupt-Global-Trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">require<\/a>\u00a0roughly an additional ten days, Meanwhile, fuel costs\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flexport.com\/blog\/global-ocean-carriers-halt-red-sea-transits-what-to-expect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are growing<\/a>\u00a0at a prohibitive rate, and insurance companies and shipping businesses have also\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agbi.com\/logistics\/2023\/12\/shipping-insurance-rates-rise-on-red-sea-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised<\/a>\u00a0their rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump&#8217;s addressing the Houthi threat, in addition to the Iranian one, would be welcomed by the Free World as well as by Egypt, which has\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.dailynewsegypt.com\/egypt-loses-7-billion-of-suez-canal-revenue-as-red-sea-tensions-disrupt-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost billions<\/a>\u00a0in revenues from the reduced traffic through the Suez Canal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A Trump decision to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization would go a long way toward making it complicated for its many offshoots to continue supporting it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Even more urgent is for the Trump administration to neutralize Hamas, Qatar, Iran, Hezbollah and the Houthis &#8212; to limit their ability to keep on destabilizing the entire region, as well as to curtail the Houthis&#8217; stranglehold on global shipping. The policy is certainly congruent with the long-held American principle of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbr.org\/publication\/the-u-s-freedom-of-navigation-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maintaining<\/a>\u00a0the international freedom of navigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The move would also send a warning to China not to continue its aggressive effort to gain control of the world&#8217;s critical sea lines near Taiwan, Australia, the Philippines and Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><i><strong>Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin<\/strong> was the Iran Desk Officer for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. He also served on active duty with the U.S. Army and as a Colonel in the Air Force Reserve.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s Home Run: Neutralize Hamas, Qatar, Houthis, Iran Lawrence A. Franklin &#8220;[Iran&#8217;s] Operation True Promise 3 will be carried out at the right time, with precision, and in a scale sufficient to destroy Israel and raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.&#8221; \u2014 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Ebrahim Jabbari, February 2025. 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