Trump’s so-called peace plan grants jihadists new sanctuaries, empowering Iran and Hamas while dragging Israel closer to nuclear chaos.
“Ye have still chaos in you,” wrote Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra. Today, as America’s foreign policy unravels under President Donald J. Trump’s latest Middle East gambit, the philosopher’s warning feels prophetic. Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza is neither peace nor strategy—it is an ill-conceived recipe for deeper chaos.
Just as his earlier proposal for Ukraine amounted to a disguised surrender, Trump’s Gaza outline is simplistic, ahistorical, and fatally naïve. It ignores the immutable truth: world peace is never built on concessions to terror, but on enforceable law and strength of will.
Since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the global order has survived on the illusion of a “balance of power.” Yet with nuclear proliferation accelerating, that balance has collapsed into dangerous fictions. In the Middle East—the cradle of biblical destiny—the fiction of equilibrium has been replaced by mounting chaos. Israel, the region’s sole democracy, is being forced into an existential struggle against jihadist terror and Iranian nuclear ambitions.
Trump’s plan, under the guise of stability, does the unthinkable: it guarantees Qatar as a safe haven for jihadists, immunizing terror financiers and Hamas leaders from accountability. Worse, by proposing Arab forces in Gaza, Trump risks replacing one terror entity with another—Sunni or Shiite regimes that have never ceased to bankroll Hamas, Hezbollah, or Islamic Jihad. For Israel, such a plan is not a bridge to peace but a trap door into wider war.
The nuclear dimension makes this even more alarming. Iran, aided by North Korea, edges closer to nuclear breakout, while unstable regimes across the region expand weapons pipelines. Sub-state terror groups will soon seek radiation dispersal devices or worse, making “unthinkable” nuclear terror entirely thinkable. An unstable nuclear Iran, combined with erratic global powers like Russia under Vladimir Putin, threatens Israel’s deterrence posture at its very core.
For Jerusalem, the challenge is stark. Should it face irrational foes—who value ideology more than survival—or outright mad ones beyond rational calculation, deterrence alone may not suffice. Israel must ground its defense and foreign policy not in illusions of “peace through balance” but in intellectual clarity, strategic independence, and overwhelming strength.
Nietzsche’s warning echoes: chaos within individuals becomes chaos between nations. Unless confronted, this chaos could soon engulf civilization itself. For Israel, survival depends on rejecting dangerous illusions like Trump’s Gaza plan, and preparing instead for the grim realities of nuclear terrorism, state-sponsored jihad, and the collapse of Westphalian order.
Israel cannot afford to be lulled into false promises. Chaos is not “normal.” It is the abyss. And only by asserting its sovereignty, strength, and unyielding clarity can Israel ensure that chaos does not become its fate.“Ye have still chaos in you,” wrote Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra. Today, as America’s foreign policy unravels under President Donald J. Trump’s latest Middle East gambit, the philosopher’s warning feels prophetic. Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza is neither peace nor strategy—it is an ill-conceived recipe for deeper chaos.
Just as his earlier proposal for Ukraine amounted to a disguised surrender, Trump’s Gaza outline is simplistic, ahistorical, and fatally naïve. It ignores the immutable truth: world peace is never built on concessions to terror, but on enforceable law and strength of will.
Since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the global order has survived on the illusion of a “balance of power.” Yet with nuclear proliferation accelerating, that balance has collapsed into dangerous fictions. In the Middle East—the cradle of biblical destiny—the fiction of equilibrium has been replaced by mounting chaos. Israel, the region’s sole democracy, is being forced into an existential struggle against jihadist terror and Iranian nuclear ambitions.
Trump’s plan, under the guise of stability, does the unthinkable: it guarantees Qatar as a safe haven for jihadists, immunizing terror financiers and Hamas leaders from accountability. Worse, by proposing Arab forces in Gaza, Trump risks replacing one terror entity with another—Sunni or Shiite regimes that have never ceased to bankroll Hamas, Hezbollah, or Islamic Jihad. For Israel, such a plan is not a bridge to peace but a trap door into wider war.
The nuclear dimension makes this even more alarming. Iran, aided by North Korea, edges closer to nuclear breakout, while unstable regimes across the region expand weapons pipelines. Sub-state terror groups will soon seek radiation dispersal devices or worse, making “unthinkable” nuclear terror entirely thinkable. An unstable nuclear Iran, combined with erratic global powers like Russia under Vladimir Putin, threatens Israel’s deterrence posture at its very core.
For Jerusalem, the challenge is stark. Should it face irrational foes—who value ideology more than survival—or outright mad ones beyond rational calculation, deterrence alone may not suffice. Israel must ground its defense and foreign policy not in illusions of “peace through balance” but in intellectual clarity, strategic independence, and overwhelming strength.
Nietzsche’s warning echoes: chaos within individuals becomes chaos between nations. Unless confronted, this chaos could soon engulf civilization itself. For Israel, survival depends on rejecting dangerous illusions like Trump’s Gaza plan, and preparing instead for the grim realities of nuclear terrorism, state-sponsored jihad, and the collapse of Westphalian order.
Israel cannot afford to be lulled into false promises. Chaos is not “normal.” It is the abyss. And only by asserting its sovereignty, strength, and unyielding clarity can Israel ensure that chaos does not become its fate.
