But U.S. officials say there is no final deal with those or any countries to actually deploy into Gaza.

And there's also no agreement on Gaza's future governance, which, in addition to a Trump-led Board of Peace, requires the naming of an apolitical Palestinian committee.

For more, we turn to two News Hour regulars, David Mikovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Hussein

Ibish of the Arab Gulf States Initiative. Thanks very much. Welcome back to News Hour to both of you.

Hussein, let me start with you. You just heard at the end there, President Trump said that Arab countries would go in and disarm Hamas if Hamas did not disarm itself. Is that possible?

No. No one is going to do this dirty work. No one is going to clean up Israel's mess for it or Hamas's mess.

These are the two parties that have created the reality in Gaza.

There is no third party that's going to come in and resolve it to everyone else's satisfaction.

So that's a fantasy. It's a fantasy that's existed

from day one. But people should abandon that fantasy because it's not going to happen.

Abandon that fantasy?

Look, I think where Hussein and I agree is we don't see A. Hamas voluntarily disarming. They

ruled through light weapons like AK-47s and the like. And we also agree that

no international stabilization force, peacekeepers, call them whatever you will. And I talk to

Arab officials all the time and said, David, we're not going in there. It's dangerous.

So it's basically down to Israel. Or I was in Ramallah just recently recently I just came back from the West Bank and Israel

and the Palestinian Authority is going to go in right now this government doesn't want it

That's the answer though it's it's other Palestinians can disarm Hamas but nobody else but of course

Israel rejects the Palestinian Authority going in right?

Yeah right and in fact Israel prefers to deal with Hamas than the PA. Because if you have a deranged

enemy with an impossible goal like Hamas, that's kind of good for you. If you regard all

Palestinians as the enemy, much more dangerous is the Palestinian Authority, which wants

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