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It's a fragile moment with Israel and Hamas only in the early stages of implementing the first phase of the Trump agreement designed to bring a permanent end to the war sparked by the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas-led militants. Trump thinks there is a narrow window to reshape the Mideast and reset long-fraught relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. It is a moment, the Republican president says, that has been helped along by his administration's support of Israel's decimation of Iranian proxies, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

So, Joe, on the two sides of that, I can remember in the month or so after October 7, an Israeli senior official saying to me, we are so disoriented and traumatized by this war. The United States is going to have to make decisions for us. Joe Biden could never do that. And Donald Trump was able to do it.

After Goldman observed that the handover of the hostages taken by Hamas will be very emotional for everybody, Phillip asked: Why do you think this was not doable when President Biden was in office? I think the biggest problem that President Biden had is there was no pressure from Qatar, from Turkey, from Egypt. They were actually facilitating in many ways what was going on. And that is really ultimately how it all came together, replied Goldman.

Blair, as prime minister of the United Kingdom, helped negotiate a 1998 peace deal ending decades of sectarian fighting in Northern Ireland. He later served as a Middle East peace envoy for the international community, and now runs a London think tank. But the 72-year-old former politician comes with baggage: He's reviled in the U.K. and internationally for his 2003 decision to join President George W. Bush's U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,

The Taliban has rejected United States President Donald Trump's demand that it hand over the Bagram airbase that Washington ran during its 20-year war in Afghanistan, dismissing Trump's threat that bad things will happen if this does not come to pass. The Taliban said on Sunday that Afghanistan's independence and territorial integrity are of the utmost importance and called on the US to uphold prior agreements that it would not resort to force.

Back in January, with Donald Trump's campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours still fresh in the memory, there was genuine unease in Moscow over the US president's intentions. When Mr Trump mused that high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on Russia might be necessary, one high-profile and pro-war Moscow commentator wrote: It's better to prepare for the worst. Soon, we'll look back on Biden's term with nostalgia, like a thaw. How wrong can you be?

Behind the scenes: White House officials are losing patience with European leaders, whom they claim are pushing Ukraine to hold out for unrealistic territorial concessions by Russia. Axios has learned that the sanctions the U.S. is urging Europe to adopt against Russia include a complete cessation of all oil and gas purchases - plus secondary tariffs from the EU on India and China, similar to those already imposed on India by the U.S.

On Sunday, the world witnessed the birth of a new Donald Trump, a bellicose one whose actions belie the abundant promises and declarations of the Trump who had expressed rhetorical desires for peace.