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They have written the peace before the war is over. They have appointed the arbiter before the victor is decided. They have drawn the map of the future with the same pen that signed the orders for the present siege.

I have seen this before. It is the architecture of a truce built on a single, shared hatred. Netanyahu, Kushner - they agree on the enemy. They agree on the condition: disarmament before withdrawal. The enemy is the coalition. Remove Hamas, and what remains? A vacuum, a territory without a polity, a people without a voice in the document being drafted for them. The American general will verify the laying down of arms, as if weapons are the root and not the symptom. He will count rifles while the real disarmament - the dismantling of hope, of political will, of any alternative structure - goes unmonitored.

This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for a managed silence. They believe that if they can certify the absence of the gun, they have created the conditions for a state. But a state is not the absence of an enemy; it is the presence of a people who consent to be governed. You cannot verify that with a military inspection. You cannot write that into a clause.

They are plowing the sea again. They think that by removing one faction, they have solved the problem of what comes next. But the problem is what comes next. The moment the shared enemy disappears, the coalition that agreed on its destruction will fracture. Netanyahu’s coalition, Kushner’s patrons - their interests align only until the last rocket is accounted for. After that, they will discover they have no agreement on the shape of the peace, only on the corpse of the war.

And so the liberator - here, the foreign general - becomes the occupier by necessity. The sword is asked to sheathe itself and become the gavel of a court that does not exist. It is a duty that corrupts by its very design. He will be asked to build the institution that the soil cannot yet sustain. He will fail, not because he is unwise, but because the task is impossible. The constitution for Gaza is being written in a language its people have not been taught to speak.

We won our wars, too. And then we had to govern. That was when we learned that victory was the smallest part of the project.