BBC Expert Points Out The 1 Key Flaw In Trump's Threat To 'Violently Disarm' Hamas

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68ef46a7150000221826a3d5.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Donald Trump said: "If they don't disarm, we will disarm them."" data-caption="Donald Trump said: "If they don't disarm, we will disarm them."" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />Donald Trump said: "If they don't disarm, we will disarm them."</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>A BBC Middle East expert has cast doubt on <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/donald-trump/">Donald Trump’s</a> threat to “violently” disarm <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/hamas/">Hamas </a>if the militant group does not voluntarily give up its weapons.</p><p>Jeremy Bowen, the corporation’s international affairs editor, pointed out that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had killed more than 67,000 people in two years trying to do precisely that without any success.</p><p>Trump made his comments amid reports that Hamas members are brutally executing rival gang members in <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/gaza/">Gaza </a>in the wake of the ceasefire agreed with <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/israel/">Israel </a>last week.</p><p>The US president said: “I spoke to Hamas, and I said, you’re going to disarm, right? Yes, sir, we’re going to disarm. That’s what they told me”.</p><p>He added: “If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them. And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently.”</p><p>Trump also spoke approvingly of the way Hamas “took out two very evil gangs” in Gaza and “killed a number of them”.</p><p>Speaking on Radio 4′s Today programme, Bowen said parts of Gaza were now “pretty lawless.”</