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.
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 unilaterally carried out military strikes in Gaza, and then claimed the ceasefire was now back on after it completed the attacks.
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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