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If Trump can succeed in turning the ceasefire into a permanent peace settlement, then he’ll deserve the Nobel peace prize he so clearly wants, says the writer. — Reuters
Nor was it Trump’s threat to let all hell break loose that will have done the trick. Hell has been breaking loose ever since Hamas launched its mass terror attack Israel on Oct 7, 2023. There is little more that any US president could do to dial up Israel’s scorched earth retaliation. True, Biden’s leverage over Israel was weakened by the fact Netanyahu knew he could wait for the possibility of a friendlier face in the White House. Yet the 46th US President also lacked the courage to use the tools he did have at his disposal, in the form of granting or withholding arms supplies to Israel.
Timing was at least as important. Trump’s pressure could work in Gaza now because – unlike in Ukraine – both parties to the conflict have more to gain from ending the war. Since Netanyahu effectively scuppered much the same offer in August, the Israel Defense Force has achieved relatively little beyond killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was swiftly replaced. The war continued even then, at disproportionate cost to Palestinians, as well as the hostages, Israel’s troops and its economy.
In the five months since Netanyahu’s August rejection of a ceasefire over control of the 100m wide strip of land inside Gaza’s border with Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, the IDF says 151 of its soldiers have lost their lives. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry estimates that 6,700 Palestinians, including an unknown number of Hamas fighters, lost theirs in the same period.
Wednesday’s agreement begins a phased process and is just the first step toward peace. The deal reportedly leaves negotiating a full end of the war to a second stage that could well break down. Only then will Israel’s government have to confront the hard choice between indefinite occupation and making political concessions the Gulf States have made clear they will need if they’re to help stabilise Gaza, or resume normalisation with Israel.
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