Starmer Off to Egypt.........

I am finding the negativity about Donald Trump increasingly tedious.

He, unlike Starmer, has actually achieved something, and for that, credit is due.

eazybee

I am finding the negativity about Donald Trump increasingly tedious.

He, unlike Starmer, has actually achieved something, and for that, credit is due.

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You’re going to need to grit your teeth and stay off threads like this if you find the negativity about Trump tedious. He has achieved one great thing, but he hasn’t changed his spots, and the sensible will bide their time before believing that this will be a lasting peace. Until far more detail is worked through questions will continue to be asked.

I am warming to Trump. He has said in the most understated and gentle way that Hamas will disarm. What style. Let’s not be too hasty for the night is young and there’s a lot at stake.

Casdon

You’re going to need to grit your teeth and stay off threads like this if you find the negativity about Trump tedious. He has achieved one great thing, but he hasn’t changed his spots, and the sensible will bide their time before believing that this will be a lasting peace. Until far more detail is worked through questions will continue to be asked.

Whether it is lasting or not, hostages have been released.

Which is wonderful fancythat. Peace is not just about the release of the hostages however, and that is the challenge.

Yes

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It's not just Starmer treated like that though.
Did you see the 26 second handshake between Macron and Trump, gripping each other and pulling back and forth? Ending in triumph for Ttump and a Macron glare at being humiliated. (As if Macron hadn't got enough trouble going on in Fance).

Oh yes, like a comedy sketch. It had me in stitches 😂
Trump also said disliked a couple of leaders, wonder who they were 🤔

It has been said before, but I'll say it again. Peace is more than just the absence of war. There will be several stages to establishing peace and stability in Palestine, let alone the rest of the Middle East (which is needed if the region is not to disappear under mountains of ruined buildings and lives), and this is only the first phase. I am not denying that this is a step forward, but there is many a slip between cup and lip, and Trump's hunger for the NPP won't on its own achieve peace. there also needs to be patience, integrity and steadfast attention to the details of the goal. I am not convinced that Trump's attention span will be enough for that. He needs advisors with integrity, skilled in their own departments and in managing his weaknesses as well.

Trump is at heart a narcissistic bully. He’s used his skills at manipulation to achieve this tenuous peace, for which I thank him

Sneering and laughing when he is at best ill mannered towards other world leaders isn’t a good look

Despite Trump's assurances that Hamas will surrender their arms I don't believe everyone is as in awe of him as he thinks.
They have not agreed this part of the peace plan yet.

The way I heard it, Hamas doesn’t need to agree to relinquish weapons. Strange I know. I am just hoping this doesn’t mean a full attack by combined forces to destroy weapons. Hamas just has to….

They might not. They believe in fighting to the death as it brings glory. They may take a lot of soldiers with them unfortunately if it comes to this.

I don’t know if boots on the ground are needed because the USA has immense firepower that can be deployed remotely?

ronib

I don’t know if boots on the ground are needed because the USA has immense firepower that can be deployed remotely?

That is indiscriminate though ronib.

A Ceasefire is a start, that is an end to military hostilities but not a guarantee of enduring peace. There is yet so much to be negotiated and agreed. There was a ceasefire earlier this year. It started on 19 January and lasted to 18 March when hostilities resumed.

This ceasefire does feel different for a variety of reasons. Handover of hostages is an early first important step but not yet finished. Israel has said one of the dead hostages handed over last night "does not match any of the hostages" and threatened to halve the expected flow of aid into Gaza Strip. The Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza yesterday said none of the 45 bodies of dead hostages they had received from Israel had been identified and that they had arrived at the facility with their hands and legs cuffed. Sensitivities run high and trust on both sides at this early stage is being tested. Stability is fragile.

I hope this early, fraught hostage handover stage can be finalised and agreed by both sides so negotiations can begin on all other issues.

Casdon no it isn’t indiscriminate whatever you mean? It’s how the US military operates.
Apparently America has top notch weapons but the problem used to be that the military didn’t always have the best training in their use. Perhaps it’s changed now?

Do you think a long range missile or drone attack would target individual members of Hamas without killing civilians then ronib? Sophisticated indeed.

The non Hamas civilians in Gaza have had enough of being bombed by Israel without the US joining in.

I have no idea Casdon. At a guess American equipment will be well in advance of anything Hamas has. Trump did more or less suggest that he wasn’t going to be messed around. Very quietly too.

Why make the comment if you have no idea whether it would be indiscriminate or not though ronib? There have been more than enough innocent lives lost already, what is needed now is targeted action against individual perpetrators. I don’t believe that can be achieved long range.

You are interested in indiscriminate behaviour. I pointed out the superior weaponry. Casdon. Yes America can target long range.

You queried what I meant when I said long range missiles were indiscriminate ronib? I think others will recognise that they are.

Misunderstood your question Casdon .
It’s very unlikely that civilians will be guarding a stash of weapons so it’s entirely up to Hamas if it wants to have more of its fighters killed. Their choice.
Whether they count as innocent is a different question.
I don’t know what Trump’s next moves will be but he’s determined that Hamas will disarm.

I can't believe all the now dead hospital staff were Hamas, ronib - just saying.