On the president’s peace – Liam Stack, Aric Toler and Arijeta Lajka in NYT:

‘Speaking on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance said “the cease-fire is holding,” despite what he called “little skirmishes here and there.” “We expect the Israelis are going to respond” when fired upon, he said. “But I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite that.” Israel has accused Hamas of delaying the return of hostage bodies, a key plank of the cease-fire deal that Israeli officials had expected to happen more quickly. Hamas has said it cannot work faster because of conditions on the ground in Gaza, which has been devastated by two years of war.’

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‘The Israeli military said the video showed that Hamas was trying “to create a false impression” of its efforts to locate the bodies, when it was not abiding by the cease-fire deal in good faith.
Shosh Bedrosian, a spokeswoman for the prime minister’s office, said at a press briefing on Tuesday that the video showed a body bag containing the remains of Ofir Tzarfati, 27, who was killed in captivity.
The video depicted the staged recovery of his partial remains, she said, which were handed back to Israel on Monday. Some of his remains had been recovered by Israel on two previous occasions earlier in the war.’

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‘In response to the video, Hamas referred the Times to a statement from earlier in the day in which it accused Israel of “seeking to fabricate false pretexts in preparation for taking new aggressive steps against our people, in blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement.” The militant group did not immediately respond to Israel’s order for new strikes.’

Read the article here.

The president’s peace is going to hold. Call it peace. No need to be cynical about the cease-fire, at least for the time being.

But is this is peace in a few months from now, we might as the question if ‘peace’ is really the right word.

When serious efforts are being made to reconstruct Gaza, yes, we can talk again about the president’s peace.