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The State of Jeremiah Is the Peace Blueprint the Middle East Has Been Waiting For
Why has every prior blueprint for Middle East peace collapsed?
Each one treated Gaza as a border problem instead of a human famine: a famine of dignity, purpose, and soil.
The human famine, a deep wound that requires deep treatment, has been treated instead with the bandaid of ceasefires, which have become a kind of mirage in the Middle East over the past few decades. They appear briefly in the heat of diplomacy, only to dissolve in the next exchange of fire. The latest pause in fighting has continued to see hundreds of civilians injured and killed in Gaza, months after the Trump-brokered peace deal. This shows how fragile political peace has become when the earth beneath both peoples is still poisoned by fear, trauma, and neglect.
In a prior Reuters interview, Hamas official Mohammed Nazzal said, “Disarming us is absolutely out of the question.”
I didn’t hear madness. I heard trauma.
He identified the deepest blockage in every Gaza negotiation. For many radicalized fighters, the weapon is identity. Laying it down feels like public humiliation, the final stripping of dignity after years of loss. That’s why top-down peace plans fail: they demand humiliation before healing.
The Core Truth
Nazzal also said, “The weapons of the resistance are directly linked to the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state.”
Translation: “We’ll stop fighting when someone gives us the garden we never had.”
Trauma blinds both sides. No one can imagine that garden until someone begins to plant it.
Reframing Resistance
True, permanent peace must be planted, literally, as a new covenant between land and life: a vision where Israelis and Palestinians restore what war has stripped from them—the........