What Are the Sticking Points that Could Sink Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan?

Israel is at an existential pivot point. It never needed to go this far.

Two years after the Oct. 7 massacre, the Middle East is at an absurd pivot point. If Hamas, badly beaten but unbowed, accepts the disarmament element in President Donald Trump’s new peace plan, the region will move toward reconstruction, Gulf-financed normalization, and peace. If it refuses, Israel will likely re-occupy Gaza, miring the region in a ruinous quagmire. That so much now depends on the whim of a terrorist group is a scandal — the pro…

What are the sticking points that could sink Trump’s Gaza peace plan?

Hamas and Israel have been brought to the table by the US president - but huge gaps remain between them on crucial issues

Talks on Gaza peace plan progress - but can the sticking points be overcome?

Israeli and Hamas officials are meeting in Egypt this week in hopes of progressing a deal for a potential ceasefire in Gaza. It comes as the world marks two years of intense war in the enclave.

Trump 20 points, more politics less peace - The Financial Daily

The 20-point “Trump plan” for Gaza like many “peace proposals” in this conflict contains ambitions, contradictions, and power imbalances that make it problematic from a justice and legitimacy perspective. The plan calls for an immediate ceasefire, the suspension of military operations, and a freezing of the front lines until the specified conditions are met. Within 72 hours of Israel accepting, all hostages (alive and deceased) would be returned…

Trump’s Gaza peace plan: Today, tomorrow and the day after

Back in January last year, my  Toda Policy Brief 182 was published with the title “Israel and Gaza: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”.