President Donald Trump embodies American political culture in its purest, most exaggerated form. His mix of blunt pragmatism, self-confidence, and showmanship is easily parodied, yet it perfectly mirrors the style that now defines US statecraft. At the ‘Peace Summit’ in Sharm el-Sheikh, he once again promised “eternal peace” in the Middle East and a final settlement of the region’s three-thousand-year conflict. The spectacle was classic Trump: loud, declarative, and aimed as much at headlines as at history.
But once the noise fades, what has really happened?
The new Gaza “deal,” negotiated for more than a year and hailed as a breakthrough, is…
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