A Test of Wills

Inside President Trump’s Bold Attempt to Broker a Real Deal and Netanyahu’s Efforts to Derail It.

I’ve been looking at this new ceasefire plan from The Honorable President Donald Trump, and honestly, the more I read about it, the more I’m left with this gnawing feeling. It’s presented as this huge, historic step, but when you peel back the layers, it looks like a one-sided deal with almost nothing in it for the Palestinians.

It’s a shocking lack of guarantees, and it’s something that analysts from all over are pointing out.

The whole situation is infuriating.

We’re talking about a plan to end a war that’s killed more than 66,000 people and wounded over 168,000. Yet, the people who have been through the absolute worst of it are being told what their future will look like by the very people who carried out and funded the conflict.

As the Palestinian lawyer and analyst Diana Buttu once put it, Palestinians are being “forced to negotiate an end to their own genocide“. This has been true for…