The hidden costs of Israel’s negotiations with Hamas
The Jerusalem Post by David M. Weinberg 14 February 2025

Extracts:
Trump on Israeli- Palestinian conflict: To this, one must now add Trump’s decision,
  • to re-work the architecture of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
  • by denying the annihilationist orthodoxies of the Palestinian national movement and its radical Islamist-jihadist supporters around the world
  • and rejecting the notion that “only” a unified Palestinian state in Gaza and Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem is the path to peace

Hamas, of course, has no interest in playing along with Trump’s attempt to,
1. reset regional diplomacy or
2. Israel’s desire to see Trump's gambit succeed

It is clear to anybody looking beyond the hostage issue at the broader strategic picture,
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Biden’s long-term outline for the Hamas-Israel truce was both unwise and unrealistic