Donald Trump’s peace deal is a huge moment but it’s just the beginning

This is a major moment in this Gaza War.

Most of all, this is a human moment. The first sparks tell this story: The Dancing in the Dark in Tel Aviv’s Heaspages Square, the eruption of joy in the dead of the night in the ruined streets of Gaza.

In the coastal enclave, where so much of life, since they knew it was broken by war, the Palestinians crossed the streets, like medieval city hiders, awakening people with shouts for “good news, the war stopped, a deal to end the fire.”

If everyone is unfolded properly on Thursday, the last of the Israeli hostages will be home within days, and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will also return to their loved ones. Weapons will be silent in gas, more help will enter the devastated enclave, and the Palestinians will not live every day, fearing that it may be their last.

But even now, some details, including the names of the Palestinian detainees to be released, are arguing. And there is a strict opposition to this agreement in Israel’s office.

However, there is a collective sigh of relief in this region and around the world passionately enters this fire more than any other conflict.

But this is just the beginning, it’s not the end. This is the cessation of fire, not a peaceful deal. The most difficult problems are still on the table.

Will Hamas agree to give up his weapons? Will Israel eventually take out its troops from Gaza? What about the vague “political horizon” Mentioned in US President Donald Trump with 20 points per 20 pointsWhich much of the world is translated as the creation of a Palestinian state and what is the Israeli government still firmly rejects?

And will they be more implemented by their two sides of this Agreement?

These are problems for tomorrow.

President Trump likes to accept credit and this time is due. It has already been announced that he will travel to Israel this weekend. Never the first phase of what is certainly a painful process of negotiation, of breakthroughs and breakdowns, marked by such fanfare.

But the US president has never put such pressure on allies and enemies – and the list is a long leaders who have tried to achieve a deal to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East.

Former State Department officer Aaron David Miller, who works on this file with both Republican and democratic presidents, is amazed at the moment when he talks to the BBC in the early hours of Thursday.

Only weeks ago, when President Trump supported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on the need to strengthen Israel’s military operations, this Gaza war with unprecedented human expenses was expected to continue until the end of this year, even in the next one.

Just weeks ago, when I asked a senior Arab employee, “Who’s had President Trump’s ear?”, The answer was “Nobody”.

Then a fortified Israeli leader took a step too far in early September when he Authorizes an attack on Hamas leaders living in the Gulf of QatariS

He infuriated Qatar, who played a major role in trying to mediate to end this crisis. He angered President Trump, who appreciates his strong, multifaceted relations, including colossal investment deals and close personal friendships, with Qatar leaders, and many other Arab countries.

His meeting in New York in mid -September with Arabic and Islamic leaders It has accelerated this inertia as the US leader finally focused on ending this match.

And most importantly, the families of the Israeli hostage finally received his full attention.

By the beginning of October, President Trump had posted photos on social media on Tel Aviv Square, filled with people and dispassionate requests personally to collect every hostage, alive or dead. “Now or never” was their rally. And he heard it.

A lot is said a lot His burning desire to receive the biggest reward for peacekeepers, Nobel Peace Prize. He does not hide it and even called Norwegian leaders, including former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for this. Such is the form of our world today.

Behind the scenes of the negotiations to end the fire, others working in the shadows made a big difference. Qatar, Egypt and Turkey have put great pressure on Hamas, convincing even the toughest commanders in their ranks that they now had to get the hostages to be released than holding on to them. Maintaining them would continue only a war that significantly weakens them in every way, even if it did not destroy their movement.

This moment is also bitter.

There is murmur that this first phase is about the same plan US President Joe Biden had put on the table last May. How many lives could be saved, including the life of Israeli hostages? How much suffering from the Palestinians could be avoided if all countries came to the table last year instead of this year?

The important thing now is the war of October 7, during the Week of its terrible two -year sign, it has reached the main turning point. It can still fall apart and even fail in the coming months. The Palestinians will agonize in the ruins of their homes, how long it will take to build what is left of their lives.

Those Living in the occupied fear of the west coast and for their futureS And Israeli politicians are already thinking about the next elections and arguing about the next stages of this deal to ensure that there are no October 7th.

But the long-awaited serious negotiations on how to move forward, not back, have begun and succeed.

This is a time to celebrate.