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wWorld leaders, diplomatic insiders, and most of the media are celebrating ceasefire in Gaza calling it a “peace agreement” and supporting the president donald trumpNow unsuccessful campaign for Nobel Peace Prize.
US Secretary of State Mark Rubio praised his boss, saying that the turning point came when Trump called the meetings. with arab And Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
“The President had some extraordinary phone calls and meetings that required a high level of intensity and commitment, and that happened,” Rubio said.
As soon as the deal came out, Trump told that this was his conversation netanyahu When he told her, “You can’t Fight the world, Bibi“, that also played a role.
Yet Trump himself acknowledged that it was not all just down to the art of the deal, when he said: “So many different things happened that were pretty amazing. There was a lot of talent involved, I’ll tell you. But there was a certain amount of luck in it, too. You know, you need luck, too. There’s such a thing as luck.”
The latest, most elaborate argument for Donald to get the Norwegian gong came from an Israeli hostage negotiator, who said it was only the current US president who could have struck the deal that was on his predecessor’s desk a year ago.
At first glance, Gershon Baskin’s revelations, which he published on social media, show where Trump succeeded Joe Biden fail.
“This deal could have been done much earlier,” he wrote.Hamas All the same terms were agreed in September 2024. But the response of Israeli negotiators at that time was that ‘the Prime Minister did not agree to end the war.’
That Netanyahu rejected the deal a year ago and that Biden failed to get him to take it is nothing new. But it reinforces the idea that Biden was weak — and that only Trump could hold “Bibi’s” feet to the fire by agreeing to end the massacre in Gaza, and to bring the remaining hostages, dead and alive, back home.
“I met with members of the US negotiating team in October 2024, and they were as frustrated by Biden and Biden’s inability to convince people to seriously consider putting a deal on the table as I was,” said Baskin, who at the time was running back-channel negotiations with Hamas for the release of hostages.
The Independent’Sources have confirmed that Biden’s own staff were frustrated by his refusal to pressure Netanyahu to limit his military operation in Gaza to a few weeks following the October 7 atrocities.
He said, Biden will not follow his advice and will remain in favor of Netanyahu.
A year later, with most (but not all) of Gaza in ruins, Baskin’s proposals, hammered out with Qatar’s help, were getting nowhere in the White House.
“Hamas was ready for a deal to release all hostages, no longer rule Gaza, and end the war. But israel Wasn’t ready,” Baskin says.
Absolutely.
A year ago, Netanyahu did not see his forces achieving what he wanted them to. Far-right elements of his government want Gaza to be depopulated so they can incorporate the strip into the Israeli state.
For them, Gaza had not yet been sufficiently leveled to accomplish their strategic goal – which was the destruction of the ability of any terrorist to attack Israel again for the next few decades.
It is not a search for peace – it is the absence of danger.
Baskin argued that it is clear that only the Trump administration can provide Israeli support for a ceasefire to which Hamas has agreed.
“On December 26, 2024, it was clear to me that the only way the war would end would be if President Trump decided it had to end… The Israeli side would accept whatever Trump forced them to accept.”
That last sentence is the logic that underlies Trump’s argument for the Nobel. This may be true and nonsense at the same time.
Hamas is an extremist organization that demands martyrdom for itself and the population it rules in Gaza. But by October last year it had clearly had enough. It wanted to survive as a movement and had achieved its goal of provoking a clash of civilizations with Israel and putting the Palestinian issue back on the world agenda.
In September this year, with Trump eight months in office, Baskin says he was moving closer to getting Hamas to accept a ceasefire agreement and long-term peace, but it failed when Israel bombed Doha, targeting Hamas’ chief negotiator Khalil al-Haya.
That bombing showed Israel’s contempt for Trump. It showed that the US was being manipulated while Israel continued to crush Gaza and the Hamas leadership.
“For over a year I believed that if President Trump decided there was a way to end the war, Trump would force Netanyahu to compromise. That’s exactly what happened.”
In fact?
The more straightforward view would be that Netanyahu achieved what he set out to do – that is, make the Gaza Strip, home to 2.2 million people, uninhabitable. The United Nations has described it as a genocide, with at least 80 percent of its buildings destroyed, including all its hospitals.
Israel’s Prime Minister also supported Trump’s plan to expel Gazans from Gaza and turn it into a vacation spot.
When the shooting and bombing stops, Gazans will leave the smoke of their homeland in droves and forever. This would be a victory in itself for Netanyahu, and he could not have guaranteed it a year ago, but he certainly can now.
Additionally, he has led a growing global voice for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
Of course, for now, Gazans can stay in Gaza. A plan will be made for its reconstruction. The Gulf dictatorships will spend billions of dollars on the effort, while Israel will block most reconstruction efforts in the name of its own security (not unreasonable, as Hamas used building funds to build a network of “terrorist tunnels”).
Negotiations about a future Palestinian state will be protracted and will continue as long as Israel continues to occupy large parts of the West Bank, while the tired and broken people of Gaza live wherever they can, behind four walls, rather than under the canvas of a tent.
Baskin says, “President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize… We can breathe again.”
Trump has offered terms that Netanyahu would consider a victory, but the hardest part comes in determining peace for the Israelis or their immediate neighbors.