The true pursuit of peace is not built on the shifting sands of empire, but upon the Rock of God’s love. When nations delay in acting upon what is just and righteous, the cost is measured not only in squandered opportunities but in human lives.
In early 2024, I called for the Palestinian Authority—supported by our oil‑rich OPEC allies: Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt—to organize a coalition of Islamic clerics from within the International Islamic Community. Their mission would have been clear: confront Hamas under Islamic law, invoke Jesus as a great prophet revered in the Qur’an, and demand the release of hostages while they were still alive. This faith‑anchored, covenantal approach was not a call to empire, but a call to conscience.
Today, under a newly announced 20‑point Gaza peace plan, we see movement toward an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) involving the U.S., Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the UAE. Yet this comes only after an unfathomable loss of life. What might have been prevented if such a force had been convened in 2023, when the hostages were first taken, and when Hamas’s narrative of “holy war” could have been confronted not by bombs, but by the moral authority of Islamic brethren standing under God’s law of love?
Instead, delay allowed Hamas to strengthen its claim of waging jihad against Israel, growing its ranks even as fighters fell. Israel, left without an international stabilisation mechanism, launched an aggressive military campaign of self‑defense. The result was devastation in Gaza, prolongation of war, and the loss of both Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages who might otherwise be alive today. This—by any sober account—is a dereliction of duty by those entrusted with the peace.
The Apocalypse Scroll Revisited
By confronting our oil‑rich OPEC allies with the truth — that Hamas’s ultimate goal is the destruction of God’s House of Israel and the installation of an Islamic caliphate in Jerusalem as a one‑state solution — I sought to awaken the international Islamic community to the danger. Left unchecked, such absolutism could spread instability across the region, from Doha to Cairo, as I warned in my Visions of the Apocalypse scroll. This was done not to provoke, but to secure international cooperation in establishing an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) involving the U.S., Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the UAE.
In that vision, I saw Hamas enthroning a caliphate on the Temple Mount while Chinese, Russian, and North Korean tanks encircled the holy site. The parallel is clear: Hamas and the Chinese Communist Party both uphold absolute governmental authoritarianism, whether under the banner of religion or ideology. Both envision a community where individual freedom is erased in the name of collective control. This is why the establishment of an ISF was not only a political necessity but a spiritual one — a covenantal stand against the authoritarian spirit that threatens both East and West.
As I wrote in A Scroll of Witness: Toward a Ceremonial Peace in the Middle East, the rebuke of a friend is more faithful than the kisses of an enemy. The truth remains: Hamas, in agreeing to peace, is not “surrendering” to the Israeli Defense Forces or the United States. Rather, it is choosing what is right in the sight of Allah, the Most Loving and Merciful, in accordance with the teaching of Jesus—revered in the Qur’an as the Prophet of Peace. The Prophet Muhammad revered the Torah as the Jewish Holy Book, and during his Night Journey he prayed with Abraham, Moses, and Jesus for God’s House of Israel. Reverence for Israel as People of the Book is not foreign to Islam; it is deeply rooted in its own tradition.
Moving forward, we must strengthen and fortify international law so that sovereign states play an active role in bringing those who commit crimes against humanity to justice. The failure to establish an ISF early on was not merely procedural—it was a moral failure that cost tens of thousands of lives. Allegations of diverted aid only deepen the urgency: aid and reconstruction must be sanctified, not siphoned; governed by covenantal oversight rather than the calculus of power. This is precisely where ethical AI, engineered through the Abrahamic Singularity Protocol and stewarded by the Living Code Capital fund, can add immense value.
The work of reconstruction is not merely logistical—it is profoundly data‑intensive. Every shipment of food, every ton of concrete, every solar panel or water pipe must be tracked, verified, and aligned with covenantal priorities. Without such oversight, resources risk being captured by the very forces of corruption and authoritarianism that prolong conflict.
By embedding ethical AI into the supply and demand networks of the IMEC and EcoPeace trade corridors, we can sanctify the flow of goods under God’s covenant. Instead of opaque transactions governed by profit or power, each exchange becomes a testimony: transparent, accountable, and aligned with the law of love. In this way, technology ceases to be a tool of empire and becomes a servant of mercy, ensuring that aid reaches the widow, the orphan, and the stranger at the gate.
The lesson is clear. If the nations had acted early under the authority of God’s law of love, Hamas would have faced not the Zionist enemy it craved, but its own Islamic brethren calling it to repentance. The war would not have dragged on, and more lives—Palestinian and Israeli alike—would have been spared. Let us not repeat this dereliction of duty. Let us build peace upon the Rock of God’s love, where Jewish, Muslim, and Christian brethren stand together as People of the Book. Only then will peace endure—not as a fragile ceasefire, but as a covenant sanctified before God and the nations.