Editorial: Give Credit to President Trump for Gaza-Israel Peace Treaty
- Publisher
- Oct 21
- 1 min read
After two years of awful, bloody war - with 65,000 dead - the Israel-Gaza War has come to a negotiated end, thanks to the patient and persistent efforts of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio; US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff - and US President Donald Trump.
The war started with the October 7, 2023 military attack by the Islamist terror group Hamas - which controlled Gaza - into neighboring Israel. Hamas sent in over 5,000 armed troops, killing over 1,200 Israeli civilians - men, women, children, elderly - many of them Americans; and kidnapping 250 back to Gaza as hostages. It was bloody mass rape and mass murder.
The world condemned Hamas, and Israel struck back - promising to eradicate Hamas.
Two years later - with Gaza literally destroyed into rubble and over 65,000 Gaza Palestinians killed - half of them women and children - the world was turning against Israel.
The Trump administration intervened to stop the war - and secure the release of the last 20 hostages. Israel and Hamas signed a preliminary peace agreement. And President Trump was cheered in the streets of both Gaza and Israel as the peacemaker.
Many in America do not want to give Trump credit for anything. But on this front, even his bitterest critics should acknowledge that Trump and his team made the vital difference for peace.