When President Donald Trump flies home from the Middle East on Monday, the region fading from view out his windows will undoubtedly be a changed one: the hostages who suffered underground in Gaza the last two years are free, and the bombs that leveled the Strip have stopped falling.
But even the valedictory set-pieces that had been arranged for him in Israel and Egypt could not mask the major uncertainty that still lingers — including the basic question of whether the Israel-Hamas war is, in fact, over.
Trump insists it is, and used a long and winding speech to the Israeli Knesset to praise his counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for having the “guts” to recognize the time was right to end his two-year military operation that followed Hamas’ deadly October 7, 2023, attack.
Netanyahu, however, has recognized no such thing.
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