The killing has stopped. Surviving Israeli hostages have been released and returned to their fa milies, while hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons have been returned to theirs.
How and when the rest of Donald Tr ump’s Mideast deal unfolds isn’t entirely clear. In the past few days, there have been moments when it seems this tentative agreement could still unravel — yet in an era when conflicts seem endless, even a tenuous peace deserves some fanfare.
But to declare an end to the two-year Gaza war, as Trump did Tuesday, as the “historic dawn of a new Middle East” wildly overstates what the ceasefire deal delivers.
Though it has, for now, stopped the bloodshed in a particularly violent and painful conflict in the Middle East, this is just one episode in what is a decades-long dispute that remains largely unsolved.
What the Trump deal has delivered, for the moment, is a classic example of a “negat
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