On a reality check – Jack Khoury in Haaretz:

‘While the announcement sounds like a new beginning, it may prove to be just a brief pause in a much longer story whose ending is still nowhere in sight. Trump is presenting the deal as a peace agreement, but no one involved is speaking about peace in any real sense. There are no discussions of borders, sovereignty or governance. The future of the West Bank and the link between it and the Gaza Strip remain distant and undefined.’

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‘"The immediate death has stopped – that's what matters," said one resident of Gaza City. But behind the relief lies deep fragility. The true test now is in implementation: how Trump and the international community will enforce the deal, who will monitor it, and what hidden clauses or disputes may still emerge in the coming days.’

Read the article here.

Trump pushed Hamas in signing a deal that might turn out not to be a deal at all.

It’s very well possible that now the world will soon forget about Gaza and move on to the next conflict, wherever that may be, in the meantime the annexation (de facto) of the West Bank will continue, and Gaza will be rebuilt (sort of) so that the new buildings can be bombed in the next war. (There must be something to bomb after all.)

The Palestinians will be forgotten, antisemitism will rise, and at a certain point Trump will be history as well, like Nixon, Mao, Arafat and other great men.