President Trump’s Gaza peace plan moved from paper to practice at the international summit in Sharm el‑Sheikh, where world leaders gathered to back a phased ceasefire and the first steps toward reconstruction after two brutal years of war. The summit was billed as a moment to end the bloodshed and begin returning hostages and humanitarian assistance to desperate civilians.
What the White House unveiled is not a small patch‑up job but a 20‑point roadmap that demands Hamas’s demilitarization, the creation of a technocratic transitional authority, and the prospect of an international stabilization force to oversee security during a lengthy reconstruction. This scheme hands Washington and regional partners an enormous administrative and financial task that will last years and test every assumption about nation‑building in hostile terrain.
Mr. Trump himself proclaimed that “now the rebuilding begins” and even called reconstruction “maybe the easiest part,” while insisting Gaza must be demilitarized and policed by honest, vetted forces before aid and investment flow. Those are sensible prerequisites in theory, but the hard truth is that talk about demilitarization and technocrats will mean nothing unless enforcement is real and funding is tightly controlled.
On my show, and across conservative media, the central argument is plain: the United States should not be left holding the bag for what could become the largest foreign‑policy boondoggle of a generation. Carl Higbie and guests have rightly warned that American taxpayers, already stretched thin, should not bankroll reconstruction schemes while Hamas’s role and Palestinian self‑governance remain profoundly uncertain. Interviews on Newsmax have even floated relocation and regional burden‑sharing as alternatives to pouring endless U.S. money into a failed governance structure.
Skepticism is not paranoia. Multiple accounts show chaos on the ground — with armed groups, looting, and competing security actors complicating aid delivery — and even some international analyses have found worrying gaps in how supplies are accounted for. At the same time an internal USAID review reportedly found no clear evidence that Hamas systematically siphoned U.S. aid, which only underscores how messy, opaque, and politically explosive any reconstruction effort will be if U.S. oversight is weak or absent. This mix of lawlessness and contested findings is the last thing conservatives should trust with billions in American dollars.
Patriotic conservatives should demand a clear bargain: secure guarantees that Israel and trusted regional partners police the peace, strict vetting of any recipients, and private and regional financing first — not open‑ended U.S. funding, occupation, or permanent trusteeship. We stand for peace, for rebuilding what war has destroyed, and for helping civilians, but we are not fools. Washington must champion stability and security without signing away taxpayers’ money to an experiment that hands control to actors who have proven they cannot govern responsibly.
