"Even for a man prone to hyperbole, President Donald Trump soared into the stratosphere this week by heralding the announcement of his new peace plan for the Middle East as "potentially one of the great days ever in civilization." The twenty-point plan is ambitiously, if vaguely, designed to end the nearly two-year war in Gaza; bring home all the hostages, both dead and alive; create a committee to govern the territory; demilitarize Hamas; and eventually eliminate "any danger posed in the region.""
"Oh, and, by the way, Trump revealed, he will chair a new international "board of peace" to monitor the plan's implementation. "Not at my request, believe me," he said. "I'm very busy, but we have to make sure this works." No other leader in thousands of years of Middle East history had been able to secure permanent peace, Trump claimed. But he had."
A twenty-point plan aims to end the nearly two-year war in Gaza, return hostages alive and dead, establish a governing committee, demilitarize Hamas, and eliminate regional threats. The plan calls for phased Israeli troop withdrawals while retaining an undefined security perimeter until no "resurgent terror threat" remains. The proposal includes an international oversight body chaired by Trump and ambitious reconstruction visions such as a Mediterranean resort. The U.N. estimates over ninety percent of Gaza's residential buildings were damaged or destroyed. Violence and civilian casualties occurred in the immediate aftermath as Israeli forces advanced.
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