Can an International Stabilization Farce in Gaza Be Prevented?

Can an International Stabilization Farce in Gaza Be Prevented?
Dr. Aaron Lerner 18 October 2025

Let’s look at the lineup for the International Stabilization Force for Gaza:

Egypt: Corrupt Egyptian security forces have continuously facilitated Hamas
smuggling, while Egyptian officials protested vociferously when we
complained and claimed everything was under control.

Turkey: Active supporter of Hamas, with Turkish intelligence already having
a heavy presence with their Hamas comrades in Gaza. Don’t be surprised if
the mission of the Turkish teams sent to ostensibly help recover the bodies
of Israeli hostages is also to restore safe access to some of Hamas’s
massive underground weapons factories.

Indonesia: Just denied visas to Israeli athletes to a world championship.
Hezbollah ran a training center 200 meters from an Indonesian UNIFIL post.

Want to see piles of weapons being destroyed?

No problem.

There will be more than enough weapons hidden in the stream of trucks coming
in from Egypt for impressive photo ops.

And they can even be real ones!

Hamas is now manufacturing more rockets in its underground factories, so it
shouldn’t be a problem for them to drop all QC standards and churn out piles
of useless rockets for photo ops.

There could even be some piles of obsolete production equipment to destroy
for a photo op or two.

Is there any way for this to work?

Are there benchmarks that can actually have significance?

That’s up to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

I say Mr. Netanyahu because the photo ops may meet President Trump’s
immediate needs, and if Hamas is patient, the next blowout can be when
someone else is in the White House.

It’s a tough decision for Netanyahu: with elections coming up, is your
priority winning the elections (those photo ops – though a farce – will look
great) or getting the job done right?

And I’ll add a twist: could Binyamin Netanyahu think he can have his cake
and eat it too – basking in the meaningless photo ops as we go to the voting
booths and then insisting on real disarmament after he forms his next
government?

I don’t have the expertise to propose benchmarks and milestones that can
overcome intentional faking.

But there are a lot of smart Israelis who can.

Makor Rishon. Maariv, Haaretz, Ynet, TV, radio – you name it – should all be
reaching out to those smart Israelis to let the country know their ideas.

Hopefully, if there are effective benchmarks and milestones circulating in
the media, the decision-makers will adopt them.

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