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With the leaders of Hamas and Israel’s prime minister agreeing to phase one of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement, Donald Trump may finally be on the verge of ending a bloody conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians — and which largely defined the 2024 election.
The U.S. president could also be on the verge of achieving a major accolade he’s openly sought for months, if not longer: the Nobel Peace Prize. Awarded to Barack Obama in 2009, winning the prize is Trump’s way of attaining a similar level of the same global respect his longtime political foe achieved with ease almost immediately upon taking office.
And as Israel’s ministers vote on the peace agreement the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington to support, it remains obvious that the Israeli government and Ne
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