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S8 Ep1127: Samuel Ben-Ur — The Board of Peace remains underfunded, with only $23 million confirmed of the $17 billion pledged; Hamas rejected an eight-month disarmament plan, its leadership has largely relocated from Qatar to Turkey, and Netanyahu's political standi

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 July 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Samuel Ben-Ur — The Board of Peace remains underfunded, with only $23 million confirmed of the $17 billion pledged; Hamas rejected an eight-month disarmament plan, its leadership has largely relocated from Qatar to Turkey, and Netanyahu's political standing depends on his hardline refusal to cede Gaza territory. (2)
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This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Baxter with Samuel Benner of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

0:50.3

We're addressing the unknowns and unfinished business of the war by the IDF against Hamas, which was said to end Hamas.

1:01.4

This wasn't Mo the Law, which was the metaphor used for years by the Israelis whenever they went into the Gaza Strip or had to go into the West Bank.

1:11.7

Mo the law. That is, now and again, they'll be rising up, and we've got to push them back.

1:17.1

We can't end it. However, the clear ambition when the war was launched in October of 23 was to

1:23.8

end Hamas. Samuel Ben-Ur is here to help me understand where we are in the ending

1:29.4

Hamas. Sam, I want to start with the members of the Board of Peace. I believe the entry fee was a large

1:36.2

dollar figure. Is there anywhere accounting for that dollar figure? Who has not paid? Who has an iow u why the board of peace is not

1:47.1

adequately funded does anybody speak to that so there are a couple of estimates i suppose i think

1:54.8

what's been confirmed is that the uae has given 20 million and morocco has given three um if there is more money, it's only been pledged.

2:03.8

The U.S., when this started, pledged $10 billion for the Board of Peace and a host of other countries

2:11.4

who were members pledged, I think, a total of $7 billion. Nowhere close to that amount has reached the Board of

2:19.6

Peace. But also, I do want to preface that by saying they haven't had operations outside of,

2:26.9

you know, essentially office work and drafting up plans. So it's not like they, there have been

2:32.4

on the ground initiatives that they've tried to do but weren't able to because they didn't have money.

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