#trump-mediation

#trump-mediation

At the conclusion of the security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu instructed the military echelon to carry out immediate, powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu's office announced in a brief statement, according to CNN. Netanyahu's decision comes after Hamas has violated the peace deal multiple times in the few weeks since it was brokered by President Donald Trump. Two Israeli Defense Forces soldiers were killed by terrorists last week in Rafah, in southern Gaza.

For months, Donald Trump has presented himself as the very incarnation of a global peacemaker, touting an ever-changing list of international conflicts that he claims to have settled. Sometimes it has been six, sometimes as many as ten. "I ended seven wars," the President told the U.N. General Assembly last month, "and in all cases they were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed," which was not true but has not stopped Trump from repeating it.