“For the first time in 3,000 years, we have peace,” US President Donald Trump announced at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. “Now they have to disarm,” he said of Hamas, claiming that the terror group had already agreed to do so. “Some people say they won’t, but they will, and if they don’t, they’re gonna not be around any longer.”
Is it bold projection, rank naïveté, or a calculated ruse? With Trump, you’re never quite sure. That unpredictability has always been part of his foreign policy edge—keeping friends and foes alike on their toes. But his latest remarks about having finally achieved “historic peace” in the Middle East raised more than a few eyebrows in Israel.
Because over here, it sure doesn’t feel like peace.
Within Israel’s security establishment, the prevailing mood is one of caution—measured, but unmistakably concerned. There is growing consensus that we are not at the end of war, but at the precipice of something far worse—a regional explosion that...
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