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kentuck

(115,137 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:58 PM Oct 2025

Do not be so quick to give credit for the Mideast "ceasefire"...

...between Israel and Gaza.

Because nothing Trump does is aboveboard. Everything he is associated with is "shady".

This "negotiation" is likely no different. He is a dishonest broker. Most people know that. His partner, Netanyahu, is also a shady character and should not be trusted.

Nothing is as it appears.

In my opinion, this is all a scheme dreamed up by Trump and Bibi to permit Israel to stop bombing the rubble in Gaza. In some way or other, it is a benefit to both of them.

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Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
1. If it holds for a few months, I'll give trump 10 points, although he'll still be in negative by thousands of points.
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 01:02 PM
Oct 2025

At a minimum hostages were returned.

lame54

(39,221 posts)
2. Just announce the investigation...
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 01:02 PM
Oct 2025

We'll take it from there

He is propaganda-ing this thing for all it's worth

Walleye

(43,853 posts)
3. Also, it looks like they shot all their munitions and there's nothing left to bomb
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 01:04 PM
Oct 2025

I don’t see how this is gonna hold. This whole situation is so very complex and Trump is so very simple-minded

Klarkashton

(4,755 posts)
5. Trump is so desperate for that Nobel Prize, he is all about "Greatest achievement in the history of the world".
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 01:28 PM
Oct 2025

Pathetic piece of shit.

Boomerproud

(9,162 posts)
6. The news networks are being spoonfed this garbage and just passing it along.
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 04:15 PM
Oct 2025

No fact-checking or insight.

Unrepentant Fenian

(1,088 posts)
7. trump and Netanyahu are grifters...
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 04:52 PM
Oct 2025

They're both going to skim money from the billions to rebuild Gaza.

ForgedCrank

(3,031 posts)
10. Any cease fire
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 06:00 PM
Oct 2025

of any length deserves credit.
We all know that Hamas will go right back to being Hamas sooner or later, but if no one is shooting today, no one is dying from it.

EdmondDantes_

(1,398 posts)
11. This
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 06:13 PM
Oct 2025

Are we so determined to hate Trump that anything he's associated with must be bad? Maybe this won't last, but starving people can get aid. Hostages got to go home. I'll take that because it's better than the situation was last week. Every peace between France and England failed until it didn't. Can't stop trying.

struggle4progress

(125,389 posts)
13. ... Trump insisted he would play his part in the future of Palestine by chairing the board
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 06:32 PM
Oct 2025

Trump insisted he would play his part in the future of Palestine by chairing the board of peace that will supervise the vast reconstruction programme ...

Trump sets sights on peace with Iran as he hails ‘end of Gaza war’

Donald Trump shares bizarre AI-generated video of 'Trump Gaza'
Feb 26, 2025

The US president posted the clip, which appears to have been published beforehand by accounts unaffiliated with the White House, on the site Truth Social on Wednesday.

It features Trump and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sunbathing in a Dubai-style resort while Elon Musk is showered with bank notes while walking on a beach. The clip echoes Trump's recent comment on Gaza when he said: 'We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal … the Riviera of the Middle East, it could be so magnificent'

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