Islamists' Response To The Peace Plan

If the opposition to the current peace plan is so strong, then how will a peace plan ever be confirmed per Daniel 9:27?

A clue may be found in Ezekiel 39:

 4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. 5 You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. 6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the Lord.

11 “‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.[b]

In the aftermath of the battle of Ezekiel 38-39, it is much easier to see a peace covenant confirmed as the "invaders" of Israel will be completely destroyed. 

Islamists' Response to Peace Plan

 Bassam Tawil

• When Hizb-ut-Tahrir says that negotiations and a peace process with Israel are acts of treason, their words are pointed straight at Abbas and the PA leadership. When Hizb-ut-Tahrir says it wants Muslim armies to liberate all of Palestine, the organization is actually calling on Muslims to march on Israel, kill Jews and destroy the state.
  
  
• While the ideology of Hizb-ut-Tahrir might sound inhospitable, it is shared by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and several other Palestinian terror groups -- particularly regarding the goal of eliminating Israel.
  
  
• By continuing to incite their people against Israel and the US... Abbas... and other PA officials are driving more Palestinians into the open, welcoming arms of Hizb-ut-Tahrir as well as Iran's proxies, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. By allowing thousands of Islamists to call for the destruction of Israel on the streets of West Bank cities, PA leaders are digging their own graves: The same people they are inciting against Israel and the US will kill these leaders not only for being affiliated with Israelis and Americans but for being too "moderate."
  
  
• Finally, by making, as they usually do, contradictory claims to their own people, they are losing, among the Palestinians, the little credibility they have left.

The Palestinian Authority, after rejecting US President Donald Trump's recently unveiled plan for Mideast peace, "Peace to Prosperity," as a "conspiracy" against Palestinians, is now trying to persuade the Israeli public that it is "still" interested in achieving peace with Israel.

Earlier this month, PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he would cut all ties with Israel and the US, including security coordination, to protest the Trump plan, which he denounced as the "slap of the century."

"We are informing you," Abbas told Arab foreign ministers during an emergency meeting in Cairo, "that there will be no relations with Israel and the US, including on security cooperation."

Abbas has been making similar threats for the past three years -- probably the reason Palestinians have long stopped taking his threats seriously.

Even journalists covering Palestinian affairs have ridiculed Abbas's repeated empty threats. "The last time Abbas 'cut security ties' with Israel in 2017," AFP reporter Joe Dyke tweeted, "the head of the Palestinian police later said that they had maintained 95 percent of their coordination, just didn't do it publicly."

Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which continues to operate under the PA in the West Bank, at least deserves credit for honesty: it openly wishes to replace Israel with an Islamic Caliphate. In late January, after Trump announce his peace plan, the organization (incorrectly) denounced him as "a Jew usurping Palestine, more than the Jews themselves." (President Trump happens to be a PresbyterianChristian.)

While the ideology of Hizb-ut-Tahrir might sound inhospitable, it is shared by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and several other Palestinian terror groups -- particularly regarding the goal of eliminating Israel.

By continuing to incite their people against Israel and the US, day in and day out, Abbas, Abu Rudaineh and other PA officials are driving more Palestinians into the open, welcoming arms of Hizb-ut-Tahrir as well as Iran's proxies, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. By allowing thousands of Islamists to call for the destruction of Israel on the streets of West Bank cities, PA leaders are digging their own graves: The same people they are inciting against Israel and the US will kill these leaders not only for being affiliated with Israelis and Americans but for being too "moderate."