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Gaza ceasefire deal is a win for Trump
The US President-elect gave Netanyahu and his Cabinet a binary choice to sign on or alienate his administration. It worked.
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US President-elect Donald Trump’s pressure could work in Gaza now because – unlike in Ukraine – both parties to the conflict have more to gain from ending the war.
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Marc Champion
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“We have a deal,” US President-elect Donald Trump said on his social media channel Truth Social,
It isn’t that he or his foreign policy team came up with a new solution. As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to highlight in a valedictory speech at Washington’s Atlantic Council on Jan 14, the deal on offer

