Two years after Hamas’s deadly terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, President Trump’s Gaza Strip appears within a push for peace.
Officials of Israeli and Hamas started an indirect conversation on the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula on Monday in the Red Sea Resort City Sharm Al Sheikh.
President Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin is putting heavy pressure on Netanyahu, and relying on Arabs and Muslim leaders to take advantage of Hamas for a ceasefire and leave the hostages. International demand is overshadowing to stop for war.
For Netanyahu, Trump’s plan provides the best opportunity to quickly free the 20 living hostages, and is the best chance to recover the bodies of 28 other people by retreating from a large -scale military operation. Rapid divided Israeli society,
Hamas’s goals are not completely clear. Most of its senior leaders have been reduced, and Trump has offered amnesty or exile in exchange for his 20-point plan for peace.
Trump said he hoped that the talks would end within days, his senior officials said that the talks were to exclude a ceasefire, hostage release and Palestinian prisoner exchange details.
The President said that Netanyahu was “very positive on the deal” while talking to reporters at the Oval office on Monday afternoon, saying that Hamas had been “fine” during the talks.
“I hope it is going to continue this way. I think it will happen,” he said. “I really feel that we are going to do a deal. We have a good chance to make a deal. And it will be a permanent deal.”
‘I’m hoping’
The establishment of a ceasefire will be the first major break in fighting since March. At that time, both Israel and Hamas explained the failure to break the allegations of violation and to end the war to end a route.
Yosi Klein Helivy, senior partner of Jerusalem’s Shalom Heartman Institute, said on Monday, “It is very reluctant to accept an Israeli optimism, it is always better to hedge your bets.”
“But I realized today that this is the first time, perhaps since October 7 that when I think about the situation, I am breathing. Really, I am breathing. I think it’s the answer that I am expecting.”
Trump gave Netanyahu less alternative, but to enter the conversation with Hamas, on Friday asked Israel to bomb Gaza following Hamas’s reaction to the President’s 20-Bind peace motion. Trump earlier pressured the Israeli leader to accept his peace plan to end the war during a White House meeting on 29 September.
“What is different, the level of American commitment and the readiness of this President, President Trump, not only for Hamas but also to benefit for Bibi [Netanyahu] Also, “Counselor and Fellow and veteran Israeli-Filistini negotiator Dennis Ross at the Washington Institute.
“Everything that does for me is that there is some speed that has not happened before.”
Dana Strol, who served as Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for the Middle East in Biden administration, said Trump included Turkey – who is the patron of Hamas – Hamas and Egypt, along with Egypt, have helped to pressurize the armed group to come to the table.
Stroll, a senior partner of the Washington Institute, said, “Long hosts, and those who have been engaged with Hamas for years, are all aligned to pressurize Hamas.” “So this is an external conversation.”
Trump spoke to the pressure campaign during his comment at the Oval Office on Monday.
“I spoke to the President [Recep Tayyip] Erdoan of Türkiye, he is very difficult to complete this deal, very difficult. And Hamas has great respect for him, he has great respect for Qatar, he has great respect for UAE and Saudi Arabia. Everyone is on our side to fulfill this deal. ,
‘Same old sticks’
While Trump welcomed Hamas’s response as “ready for a permanent peace”, experienced diplomats saw Hamas appointing a standard playbook to interact to preserve their own existence.
“It seems that the glued points are back in the future, the same old sticking points for Hamas,” stroll said, “where there is a conditional ‘yes”, but it is always about the implementation details. “
Hamas, in his initial acceptance for Trump, did not clearly agree to hand over his weapons and give up political participation in the future Palestinian government.
“They are fighting for existence, and this means that they do not, for example, they want to lay their arms. They don’t want to leave more fields, they do not want to leave a place in Palestinian politics,” Elliot Abrams said, Iran Policy Director for Jewish Institute for America and Iran for the former US Special Representative for America and Iran.
But Israel is getting a major carrot to stop its military bombing for Hamas. Trump’s plan has also promised to secure the release of 250 Palestinians serving life sentence in Israeli jails, as well as 1,700 after 7 October. Trump is also offering Israel to Israel to get Israel to transfer the remains of 15 Palestinians to every Israeli body.
“Hamas is very eager to arrive at an agreement to end the war and start the prisoner exchange process according to the terms of the region,” a senior Hamas Officer Told AFP on condition of anonymity,
Israel withdrew its military operations in the strip following Trump’s directive, and the talkters in Egypt were tasked to define the ceasefire of the ceasefire – when the fight will stop, where the Israeli soldiers will return from the Gaza, will we distribute to all the hostages, which will release the names of the Humanitians and how will it release a surgery.
The White House on Monday held a difficult time limit for a deal. Trump had given Hamas to decide by the first Sunday whether to accept his 20-point proposal, or to face “hell” by the Israeli army.
Very ‘to be seen’
Accession will be a huge achievement for the first phase of a ceasefire and the first phase of the hostage release deal, but it will be only the first step that is seen as one of the most challenging diplomatic dialogues to solve.
Ahmed Fauud Alakhatib, head of Palestine Project at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, Ahmed Fauud Alakhtib Alakhtib Alakhtib said, “I am afraid that Hamas will rule, but will not rule directly.” Told CNN,
Alaktib warned that Hamas can try to maintain small weapons to control Gaza’s pocket and try to influence any technical glory structure to re-organize the enclave and paves the way for self-governance.
He said, “We can see the proliferation of militia and a very low intensity civil war, with Hamas, clan, this new government, if it is ever an executive force, is dying for the control of the region,” he said.
Another open question is how Trump will be under the supervision of his 20-point peace plan, named himself the chairman of the “Peace Board”. The scheme will honor Gaza’s inhabitants as a “international stabilization force” to replace Israeli soldiers in Gaza, disintegration of Hamas tunnels and weapons, and reconstructing enclave under a governing body.
“Does Trump have will and skills to navigate on 7 October. 7 The Middle East is highly impossible, but it remains to be seen,” the senior partner of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Daniel Curtzer, former US Ambassador to Egypt and Israel, wrote by Daniel Currtzer, Daniel Kurtzer, Daniel Current Kurtzer, Daniel Current, Daniel Current Kurtzer, Daniel Current Curtzer, Daniel Curtzer, Daniel Curtzer, Daniel Curtzer, Daniel Curtzer, Daniel Curtzer, Daniel Curtzer, former US Ambassador. Articles for foreign policy,
“He is not patient to interact in the Middle East Suk [market]He has very little benefit on Hamas. And if Israel killed Israel to carry out its share of the plan, then they cannot have political will. ,
Sen Lindsay Graham (RS.C.), a close Trump associate and Hawkish of Israel, initially Humas’s response condemned As a “rejection”, but then the President asked Israel to return Gaza’s bombing.
“This is the spot. The hostages released first, then talk to the remaining part of the 20 point plan,” Graham Posted on social platform X,
