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TeaHe agreement Celebrating in an extraordinary way Running ceremony in the Israeli Knesset Peace is not a compromise.
there is an agreement to end Gaza war, return the hostages (living and dead), release palestinian prisonersand for israelphased withdrawal from Gaza strip. This also includes the establishment of a joint security force of Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian troops, perhaps the Emirates and the Saudis, which would impose military control on the Gaza Strip and prevent any attempts to break out. Hamas To restore its military capabilities.
It also establishes a committee of technocrats to manage the government in Gaza. HamasInternational monitoring includes Türkiye, Qatar, Egypt, former British Prime Minister tony blairAnd the President of the United States himself.
It’s an impressive arrangement that would have seemed unexpected until a few weeks ago.
The Israeli government agreed to abandon the firm positions represented by the Prime Minister benjamin netanyahuHamas was not completely destroyed, but it suffered a severe blow. The Gaza Strip has been almost completely destroyed; Most of the buildings in this small piece of land no longer exist, and it is possible that many Gazans are still buried under the debris of the buildings.
On top of them, it is known that more than 67,000 people have been killed, a significant part of whom were not involved in terrorism at all, but were almost inevitable casualties of the Israeli military campaign that began after Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Israel has buried more than 2,000 dead, civilians and soldiers. on more than half of them 7 October alone; many others during the military campaign that lasted nearly two years. surviving israeli hostage All have been returned. The dead will definitely come back in the coming days.
This is a summary of recent events. Was donald trump Decided not to force Netanyahu to apologize to Prime Minister QueueWith an insulting text dictated to him, and a Qatari representative sitting next to him who scrutinized every word Netanyahu said, we could still be in the middle of a war.
Apart from Trump, no other leader could make this sequence of events happen. Efforts by Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and many others in the international community helped end the war. They deserve thanks and appreciation. However, only one leader made a dramatic difference.
Trump deserves appreciation and gratitude. israelEspecially to force their Prime Minister to do what he had refused to do for over a year. This deal became possible a year ago – but only became reality when Trump made the decision.
This is not a peace agreement. The title that Trump suggested for the conference to be held in Sharm el-Sheikh is – “Peace 2025” – This has nothing to do with what has happened so far.
The key question now is whether a temporary end to the war, Israel’s partial withdrawal from Gaza, and continued minor activity by Hamas will be the starting point for a bold political move that will transform the entire Middle East and bring about an Israeli-Palestinian peace based on two states.
A Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel, based on 1967 boundariesThe Arab part of Jerusalem serves as its capital, and the Old City of Jerusalem is not under Israeli or Palestinian sovereignty but is managed in trust by five countries: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, PalestineIsrael and the United States. A demilitarized Palestinian state adjacent to the State of Israel, with no army of its own.
Or, God forbid, will the status quo, which led to the events of October 7, continue in the future?
Encouraged by international support, the US President has called dozens of leaders to Egypt. They will not give up the right to pat him on the back, to say flattering words in the style that has already become the model for the conventions Trump attends. But these celebrations – the fun carnival atmosphere, the hugs, the words of thanks – and Trump’s strange speeches, as in the Israeli Knesset, his need to mock his predecessors Obama and Biden, are not yet a political plan.
Some people in Israel still don’t dream of it Complete annexation of the West Bank and the expulsion of the Gaza Strip and their inhabitants into the State of Israel to nearby Arab countries or distant countries that will agree to accept them. Some Palestinians do not dream of rehabilitating the military capabilities of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations, hoping to succeed in resuming military conflict at some point in the near future.
The people of Palestine and the people of Israel are still prisoners of illusory dreams driven by ruin and destruction. They will not bring peace.
These days, both sides are still held captive by the blood-soaked trauma of the past two years and painful memories of decades of bloody conflict. However, there is no alternative other than a peace agreement based on two states that would recognize the mutual rights of both sides.
In the absence of further momentum, if the status quo that has existed so far continues, we will be back in the fight.
Only Trump can bring about this turning point. If he focuses on the essence, if he avoids arrogant and sometimes childish statements full of endless self-love, and takes a step that the whole world knows is inevitable: two states for two peoples.
If not, today’s carnival-like session of the Israeli Knesset, at such a poignant event, will be remembered as a theatrical feat – nothing more.
ehud olmert Former Prime Minister of Israel (2006 to 2009)