HAMAS ACTS OUT OF DYING DESPERATION

AT A TIME WHEN MANY ARE POISED FOR A BOLD NEW APPROACH TO PEACE IN ISRAEL, HAMAS IS ACTING OUT OF DYING DESPERATION.

Hamas wanted to get in some last licks on the cusp of Ramadan.  They also tried to steel the focus away from a huge Israeli public relations success -- Euro Vision coming up in Israel in just days.

Hamas's missile attacks this weekend against Israeli's are like distress flares.  They are a painful sign that Hamas senses their time is running out - their days are numbered.

The President's Senior Advisor Jared Kushner is expected to announce a new peace plan very soon.  Kushner has been working behind the scenes for over a year.

Hamas has read the writing on the Western Wall, pardon the pun, and they know that the imminent new peace plan spells their demise. 

Tangentially, Jews around the world are counting the Omer, the days until Revelation. Shavuot, the Jewish holiday which celebrates receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, is in our sights since Passover.  And so is a hopeful new day for the Palestinians and Israelis.

It is no coincidence that Kushner has been privately going around to Arab countries, laying the ground work.  In my opinion, Kushner is collecting "gold & silver" to build a better future in Israel for both the Palestinians and the Israelis. There are practical physical things going on to prepare for a miracle - Peace.

I HAVE HIGH HOPES . . .

I look forward to the announcement of a bold new plan with a very different and exciting approach.  I expect Kushner's plan to have significant practical elements which create great opportunities for prosperity, a better quality of life and a fresh start.

The time is right and the stage is set for a brilliant new paradigm that finally alters the way we perceive the future for the two sides and how the Palestinians and Israelis can coexist and thrive together. 

If the plan is as promising as I hope it will be for the Palestinians especially, it will cut the legs right out from underneath Hamas, and force Fatah's hand.

I believe in the court of world public opinion, and more importantly with the Palestinians, Hamas is about to lose any remaining leadership credibility and expose itself by how it responds to the new peace plan.  Once and FOR ALL Hamas's words and actions will lay bare how corrupt, destructive, hateful and lying their organization is.

The choice that the Palestinian people will have to make, between new leadership with a fresh new vision, verses the failed Hamas and Fatah leadership, will be the ultimate test of the Palestinians. 

What could be truly amazing is the reaction to the new plan by Israel's Middle Eastern neighbors, particularly Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.  I would not be surprised for them to privately, if not publicly, support Kushner's bold plan in words and deeds.

I stand with Israel, but we all would be glad to see the Palestinian people living happy, peaceful and productive lives in harmony with the Israeli people. That is the future they must choose!

TIME WILL TELL AND ITS TIME! NISSAN HAS ARRIVED -- LET'S ALL HOPE/PRAY FOR A MIRACLE.

MY PREDICTION OF POSSIBLE PLAN:
First a preface - With the Israeli election decided and Netanyahu serving another, and historic term, Bibi can take decisive actions to deal with the Palestinians that were not likely prior to the election.

In addition, with the Mueller investigation closed and no collusion found, let alone with the tables turning on the accuser's after Barr's accusations of spying, Trump is in the strongest position he has been in politically since being elected, even after losing the House.

The stage is set for Netanyahu and Trump to announce the long promised and highly anticipated Trump/Kushner Peace plan.

The big question is what will they be offering the Palestinians in exchange for peace.  Most of the attention has been on whether the offer of a two-state solution is still on the table.  I predict the centerpeace of the plan that Kushner has devised is a NEW ELECTION.  I'll explain.

SEVEN STEPS TO A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS:

I believe the deal will contain the following elements:

1. Israeli's IDF will re-enter Gaza in order to ensure a process whereby a fair election can be conducted by the Palestinians.

2. Very shortly a Palestinian opposition party and candidates will emerge to compete against Hamas and Fatah.  Israeli IDF forces will provide them protection against Hamas leaders who otherwise would "eliminate" them.

3. Such opposition candidates will have the backing of several Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and possibly Jordan.  I believe Kushner has been working on such arrangements over the last two years and the very recent visit of Egypt's President to meet privately with Trump was to finalize details for the Plan.

4. The USA and other Western allies, as well as perhaps even Russia, will support the new Palestinian party candidates.

5. Thanks to prior commitments of support from Arab countries and the USA*, the new leader will be able to make an incredibly rich and wonderful offer to the Palestinians. (E.g. new schools, new hospitals, jobs, greater freedom to move about, and peacefully coexistence within Israel.)

* The USA halted hundreds of millions in support for the U.N. and Abbas.  That money can be redirected to the new party and projects to help Palestinians if they win the election.

6. I do not have a strong sense of whether they will be offering actual Statehood, but I do believe the Palestinians will have greater freedom of governance.

7. In the spirit of the Jubilee year, which Jews have not celebrated since the destruction of the Temple and the diaspora which scattered the 12 Tribes of Israel, I have one more possible element.  An element of Biblical dimensions.  What about a provision in the plan that allows any Palestinian who can trace their family ancestry back to ownership of a specific plot of land in Israel, being given the right to apply to purchase back their ancestral land.  Perhaps a fund could be set up with millions donated by Arab countries, that would support such a plan.

Again, the point in all this is that the CENTERPIECE of the peace plan is an ELECTION.  The Palestinians will be given the opportunity to chose their fate.

In order for there to be a fair election process in Gaza, in which true opposition of Hamas can rise up, the Israeli IDF must move into Gaza and seize control.

Hamas just gave the Israeli Army the reason it needed with this weekend's massive rocket attacks.  By virtue of Hamas's dying act of desperation they have set in motion the next steps that will be their demise.

Hamas will run on it's record, which as we all know promises only greater pain and misery.  Or the Palestinians can make the only sensible choice - The NEW Plan.  And when the Palestinians choose the new party they are not only choosing a bright future, they will also be rejecting IRAN!!

In the process, the world will have no choice but to accept the United States and Israel's newest ally - the new Palestinian government!

Such a peace plan could be even greater than the "deal of the century" Trump would love to land. It would be worthy of higher praise than the cheapened Nobel Peace Prize.  This could be what Jews and Christians have waited thousands of years for.  With the annexation of the Golan and the West Bank, ALL of the Kingdom of Israel is restored. Is it time to take a roll call for the Ten Lost Tribes?