Trump's Stabilisation Plan for Gaza Risks Starting Another War

by Con Coughlin • December 2, 2025 at 5:00 am

"What is the mandate of security forces inside of Gaza? And we hope that it is peacekeeping, because if it's peace enforcing, nobody will want to touch that.... [R]unning around Gaza on patrol with weapons, that's not a situation that any country would like to get involved in." — King Abdullah II of Jordan to the BBC, October 27, 2025.
The same is true for an international force, as the world has been witnessing in Lebanon. For nearly half a century.
It is a measure of the Trump administration's growing desperation to move to the next stage of its Gaza peace plan that it has even approached the legitimate government of war-torn Yemen to deploy troops, even though it has proved totally incapable of defending its own country from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
So while Trump may be celebrating the decision by the UN Security Council to back his Gaza peace plan, he may soon find that turning it into reality may be an impossible task so long as Hamas terrorists remain in Gaza.

Pictured: Hamas terrorists speak with members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, on December 1, 2025. (Photo by Omar Al-Qataa/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump's hopes of establishing a permanent ceasefire in Gaza could be fatally compromised by his efforts to create an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to run the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas terrorists.

As part of Trump's wide-ranging plan to end the Gaza conflict, he has proposed the creation of a multinational force drawn from a number of Arab and Muslim states that will be mandated to maintain security in the enclave for an initial period of two years.

A critical part of the force's mission will be to disarm Hamas terrorists and end their two-decade-long reign of terror in Gaza. During that time, apart from brutalising the local population, they used the opportunity to launch a constant stream of terrorist attacks against Israel, culminating in the invasion of October 7, 2023.

It would be intolerable if Hamas's successor were to do the same.

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The Strategic Importance of Trump's 'Office of Fusion'

by Lawrence Kadish • December 2, 2025 at 4:00 am

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Perhaps not since President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Advisory Committee on Uranium in October 1939, whose mission would eventually lead to the creation of the atomic bomb, have the actions of a president regarding energy been so crucial to America's future.

As November of this year came to a close, President Donald J. Trump established a dedicated Office of Fusion within the Department of Energy. It represents a pivotal shift in America's approach to energy independence and leveraging unlimited energy to ensure global leadership. By elevating nuclear fusion energy from a research-focused effort hidden within the Office of Science to its own office, the president has publicly recognized that the most transformative energy technology of the 21st century needs to be American "born."

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