Trump arranged a ceasefire that got the Israelis twenty hostages and the end to a war they weren’t winning and allowed Hamas to remain in charge just to suit Trump’s own vanity.

The Trump arranged deal for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War is a bad deal for the Israelis, despite the fact that everyone, Israelis and Arab and world leaders, will already have applauded the deal because getting accolades is all Trump cares about anyway. The Israeli view of the war was to achieve the unconditional surrender of Hamas, which was the goal of Israel when it retaliated against Oct, 7th, but in two years it has not been able to do the job .Hamas survives as a coherent military entity. The points about Hamas Trump insisted had to be done immediately when he announced his plan have already fallen to the wayside. Demilitarizing Hamas and turning Gaza over to a technocratic administration led by Trump and Tony Blair is now put off to further negotiations that could amount to nothing. The only immediate results of the agreement is the return of twenty live hostages, which was necessary to the Israelis because people are sentimental about people in danger rather than about the disproportionate number of Gazan civilians who have died in the two year war and should make the hostages small potatoes. In exchange, Israel gives up two hundred and fifty highly dangerous security prisoners primed to become the next generation of Hamas militants. Trump says the war is over and the ceasefire and aid and reconstruction, should that happen, are good things, but all that means is that it is over until Trump is past and Hamas recovers and starts fighting again. You can see Hamas as a principled group out to kill Jews at all costs or as a fanatical and irrational group, or as freedom fighters who also violate the Geneva Conventions concerning hostages and targeting the killing of civilians. but Hamas has survived the Israeli best.and we might as well recognize that.