Ben Cohen

But again, what it does not have is are any firm commitments from donor countries to provide troops.

And the reason for that is that no country wants to deploy its troops in a situation where Hamas remains armed and dangerous.

So that's why, Mike, I'm feeling a little bit on the pessimistic side here.

So basically, at the moment, Gaza is bisected by what the Israelis are calling a yellow line, after the color of the barricade, the barriers along that line.

So essentially, the Israelis have something like, let's call it 55% of Gaza, the half

that lies to the east, that borders Israel, and Hamas is in the remainder on the areas of Gaza that are adjacent to the Mediterranean coast.

And what the...

There was actually a conference over the weekend in Qatar, in Doha, which was hosted by the administration.

And they had, I think, something like 25 countries turned up.

And there was a big appeal from the U.S., you know, deploy your troops.

Let's get this international stabilization force staffed, and let's give President Trump an announcement to make before or around the Christmas holiday, before we get to the new year, that this ISF deployment is going to happen.

None of them were...

remotely keen on deploying troops, and those who said that they would be prepared to consider it only wanted to deploy their troops on the Israeli side of the yellow line, which, to my mind, kind of defeats the purpose.

Right.

And this is the problem.

You really have to secure a commitment from Hamas to disarm before you can deploy these troops.

If you look at other conflicts around the world where you've had terrorist groups disarming, Northern Ireland is one example with the IRA, the Irish Republican Army.

Also in Colombia, the FARC, the communist guerrillas, they also disarmed.

But they signed up

to that process, and they felt that it was to their political advantage to engage in disarmament.