2025-10-13
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Plenty of American presidents have sought a breakthrough in the bitter conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Now, two years after the atrocities of October 7th and after endless rounds of killing in Gaza,
Donald Trump has joined the tiny list of those who have succeeded.
The tentative agreement between Israel and Hamas to stop the shooting and release the hostages opens up a new vision for the Middle East.
The path is narrow,
but it is the best chance of creating lasting peace since the Oslo Accords in 1993 and 1995.
The new vision is radically different from the Moribund approach under Oslo.
It offers a shift from endless abstract negotiations over maps and the hypothetical constitutional arrangements of two states.
Instead, it promises a practical approach, in which as Gaza is governed and rebuilt,
rid of the terrorists who once dominated it,
Israelis and Palestinians come to believe that they have more to gain from coexisting than from destroying each other.
Success looks less like a ceremony in the White House and more like a decade of cement mixers spinning in Gaza as violent settlers in the West Bank are curbed,
the threat of missiles fades and ordinary people embrace a slowly rising belief in a safer,
more prosperous future.
The peace deal is a triumph for Mr Trump's transactional bullying style of diplomacy.