Over the last fortnight, both the incumbent president and his successor have engaged in joint efforts to bring the peace agreement over the line.
Both America’s 46th and 47th presidents will insist they deserve the credit for securing the agreement.
President Joe Biden with president-elect Donald Trump in the White House’s Oval Office (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)Trump and his lieutenants argue that the president-elect’s deadline of next Monday to avoid the United States from unleashing unspecified military action in the region made all the difference, and that Witkoff’s work was key to securing the agreement.
Protesters in Tel Aviv greet news of a ceasefire with relief (Photo: Amir Levy/Getty Images)For months, Trump has claimed that he has the unique capacity to resolve the crises in both the Middle East and Ukraine on day one of his presidency. He insists that neither the 7 October, 2023 attack on Israel, nor the Russian invasion of Ukraine would have occurred on his watch. His lieutenants have argued that America’s enemies are quaking in their boots over his return to the Oval Office. Last summer, those claims seemed fanciful. But Trump’s team will argue that the breakthrough in Doha is a fresh indicator of what America can achieve when it has a leader who is willing not just to draw lines in the sand, but to enforce them as well.
Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, who has been leading the negotations (Photo: Nathan Howard/AFP)The ceasefire agreement should mean that Biden’s departure from office is accompanied by a cessation of hostilities in Gaza, by the early release of at least some hostages held by Hamas, and by the exchange of Palestinians held in Israeli jails. That is a far better outcome for America’s departing leader than he may have expected just a fortnight ago. Then, the air in Washington was thick with talk of a repeat of January 1981, when Iran only agreed to release 53 Americans held hostage in the US embassy in Tehran hours after Ronald Reagan’s swearing-in, defying Jimmy Carter to the very end.
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Read MoreHistorians will debate who deserves more credit for the ceasefire deal that – if enforced – will end more than a year of captivity for a still-unverified number of hostages in Gaza, and silence Israel’s military campaign in Gaza that has claimed an estimated 48,000 lives. The timing of the announcement allows both US presidents to insist that it would not have happened without them. Making sure that the deal sticks will be the hard part, and that will now fall to Trump, even while the fresh paint dries on the walls of his White House.
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