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So much for Trump's 'historic' Middle East peace deal



Republican elected officials, right-wing pundits, and gullible reporters all
heaped mountains of praise onto President Donald Trump after Hamas and Israel
agreed to a ceasefire on Oct. 9, which secured the release of hostages Hamas
had taken in exchange for Israel to stop its military strikes in Gaza.

On its cover, Time magazine ran a photo of Trump alongside the words "HIS
TRIUMPH." GOP lawmakers demanded the president be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
for “brokering historic deals to end wars that have lasted for decades.” And
The Washington Post’s editorial board said Trump had achieved a “generational
accomplishment.” Others criticized Democrats for not giving Trump credit for
the Middle East peace he supposedly brokered.




 



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But those toadies now have egg on their face. The ceasefire between Hamas and
Israel appears to be collapsing not even three weeks after the ceasefire deal
was announced.

Israel on Tuesday carried out military strikes in Gaza after the nation
accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire by attacking Israeli troops and not
returning the remains of Israeli hostages killed in Hamas captivity.

The Trump administration claims that the peace deal still holds, even though
the persistence of military strikes means there is, by definition, no peace in
the region.

The ceasefire deal "doesn't mean that there aren't going to be little
skirmishes here and there," Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday during a visit
to Capitol Hill. "We know that Hamas or somebody else within Gaza attacked an
[Israeli] soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the
president's peace is going to hold despite that."

In fact, Israeli society is bristling at the United States’ involvement in
making sure the ceasefire lasts, with the Israeli news outlet Haaretz writing
that “defense officials have the impression that American scrutiny of Israel
has reached a point that usurps Israel’s military and diplomatic power.”

The Israeli government, for its part, claims the ceasefire is now back on
after it carried out its latest attacks.




 



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However, what kind of ceasefire is it if every so often either side is
launching strikes or violating the terms of a peace deal that is supposedly in
place?

It's almost as if a lot of people preemptively celebrated the end to a
decades-old crisis that no politician has ever been able to solve.

“How long is the U.S. media going to pretend that there is really a ceasefire
in place?” Tommy Vietor, who was a spokesman for former President Barack
Obama’s National Security Council, wrote in a post on X. “Clearly [Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's plan is to bomb Gaza whenever he wants in
perpetuity. Hamas has not been disarmed. Trump took a huge victory lap but none
of the big problems are solved.”



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