With Iran now on the defensive, and its proxies badly battered, and with the IDF now in control of much of Gaza, Hamas finds itself more isolated than ever. Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib suggests a series of steps that could help increase the pressure on the terrorist group, and bring the war to a speedier conclusion:
Freeze/seize resources and funds in Qatar and elsewhere: although Hamas has faced financial sanctions, the group has leveraged its presence in Qatar, Turkey, and other countries to circumvent restrictions and utilize the financial networks and systems of these nations to amass significant sums of money. If this rainy-day fund that the group needs to rejuvenate and replenish its ranks is threatened, it could be pressured into capitulating.
Make the Palestinian Authority officially declare Hamas a terrorist organization.
Use the Arab League to delegitimize Hamas and create an Arab Gaza Force: just like they did following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Arab League should delegitimize Hamas’s actions in Gaza. . . . The resolution should also call for establishing an Arab policing force whose mission is to help re-establish law and order in the coastal enclave after the war, as part of a transitional period.
Issue INTERPOL Red Notices for Hamas’s political leaders outside of Gaza.
Offer a publicly transparent and comprehensive off-ramp for Hamas personnel in Gaza: members, fighters, leaders, and all who are involved with the terror group’s infrastructure should be offered varying degrees of incentives to give up, move on, walk away, turn over weapons, provide valuable information, demobilize, and reform.
What’s most shocking about these common-sense proposals is that none were undertaken in the early months of the war.
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