For all US President Donald Trump's boasts about ending wars and being a worthy candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize, when his moment came to end the war in Gaza and build a sustainable future for both Israelis and Palestinians, he failed. At least for now.
As the two men announced this so-called peace plan, there was not a single Arab leader in the room. That says everything.
The presence next to these two of the leader of one of the Arab heavyweight nations — such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE or Egypt — would have given the proposal a much-needed credibility in the Arab world ...
... After eight months back in the Oval Office, Donald Trump has been outfoxed by Russia's Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine and now Benjamin Netanyahu over the war in Gaza.
He boasts of ending seven wars so far, but the two wars in which civilians are being killed in huge numbers — Ukraine and Gaza — are as bad as ever ...
... Already, Israel's formidable propaganda machine — there's a word in Hebrew for this, "hasbara" — is hard at work.
A couple of hours before President Trump's announcement, former Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, was explaining to CNN that this plan was about a "pathway" towards a Palestinian state ... He explained that a "pathway" doesn't mean a commitment to implement such a state but rather a commitment to "discuss" such an idea ... read on