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They said peace would never come to the Middle East, yet the world watched in amazement as Israel’s 20 remaining Hamas-held hostages came home and Hamas agreed, at least on the surface, to the other terms of the deal. The deal even had many of Donald Trump’s critics doing the unthinkable: give him credit for pulling off an audacious plan and making Israel and Hamas shake hands on a fruitful endeavor. Rich Lowry is the Editor-in-Chief of the National Review. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to discuss the deal that made the world a safer place- and the victory lap Trump ran across the Knesset.
Lowry pointed out for host Larry Mendte the reasons why the peace deal is such a good one from the Israeli perspective: “[It’s] fantastic to get the hostages back. This is a good deal for Israel. There’s a lot yet to be determined- you know, whether Hamas really disarms, whether they get a technocratic government in Palestine, all of that- but to get the hostages back [and] still be controlling 53% of Gaza as a security guarantee, to have the Arab states in a position to build of the Abraham Accords, it’s a major breakthrough, and Donald Trump deserves a huge amount of credit. They should be Fed Exing him next year’s Nobel Peace Prize right now.”
Lowry says Trump deserves credit for not negotiating the traditional way to make both sides trust him and accept the peace plan. “This worked brilliantly. He did everything he wasn’t supposed to by conventional metrics, right. He arms Israel to the teeth, bombs Iran, and squeezes Qatar to deliver Hamas. This a huge feather in his cap.”
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