How much does that peace cost?
From the outset, any peace proposal is a good one, even if it comes from an indecent guy like Trump. That said, the proposed peace agreement, announced with the usual insufferable self-promotion of the American president, to which Netanyahu has embraced in a deceitful manner that would be laughable if it weren't tragic (addressing his audience in Hebrew to belittle the points of the agreement he least likes), lacks credibility. Specifically, it is a peace agreement that should be read alongside the words of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who just two weeks ago, during a real estate conference in Tel Aviv, bluntly declared that Gaza is "a huge real estate deal that pays for itself." Smotrich didn't stop there and spared no details or underlining: "Israel has spent a lot of money on this war, and now we must see how we divide the land into percentages." And also: "We have already completed the first phase, which is demolition; now it's time for reconstruction." And yet: "Gaza is a gold mine that we will share with the US."
Three weeks ago, Hamas announced that it was prepared to negotiate "immediately" a peace plan, specifically one that would include the release of all hostages in exchange for an end to the war in the Gaza Strip. However, it is also highly doubtful that this is true. Trump's proposed peace plan includes the total withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and, in parallel, the disarmament and surrender of Hamas. It is highly unlikely that either of these things will ever happen: too many war crimes and too much martyrdom of the civilian population for hatred to fade away now just for a colorful figure to say so from the Oval Office of the White House.
In addition to money, in Trump's case, megalomania must always be taken into account, a factor that is not quantifiable but which in his case is decisive. It's hard to say whether Trump is more authoritarian or vain, but in any case, one instinct fuels the other, and these are largely the reasons that make him a fickle, arbitrary, unbalanced, and unbalanced ruler. Naturally, Trump always wants to do business, and the famous video of the Gaza Strip converted into a tourist resort was a clear statement of intent and an example of how much the Trump and Netanyahu administrations are in tune with Smotrich's words about the "gold mine" that awaits them with the reconstruction of Gaza. But just as much as this, Trump has now become obsessed with the idea (a whim; he has lived his whole life fulfilling his whims) of establishing himself as a champion of world peace, idolized by many. Trump, in short, wants to be worshipped: the same video featured an image of a large, golden statue of him in the middle of the future tourist city of Gaza... Clausewitz (now back in the news because Bob Dylan said he reads) already warned that there is a point in victory that should not be surpassed.