Israel-Hamas reach a truce agreement

A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has officially been brokered after a year of intensive negotiations between the parties and the US. The Biden Administration has made this one of its top goals that they wanted to accomplish before leaving office, with reports saying that Joe Biden has spent more time on this than any other issue in the closing weeks of his presidency.

The ceasefire will be done in multiple phases, with the first phase including the release of approximately 33 hostages from Hamas custody. Hamas still had 94 hostages but it is unclear how many of those remain alive. The remaining hostages, both alive and dead, will be released in the multiple phases of the deal. The Israeli Security Cabinet is expected to approve the deal shortly. It is possible that the deal could begin to be implemented as soon as this weekend.

Naturally, Trump was quick to claim all the credit for it despite not being in office yet: “This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of hour Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Admin would seek Peace. We have achieved as much without even being in the WH.”

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Yes, the Biden Admin issued a press release. Statements will be made later. I get that. But the world has changed and those old methods of communication in the social media era simply aren’t good enough. There is so much more they could have done to get out in front of this, but they are always two steps behind in communications. Trump’s statement was out before the Biden Admin statement, and they mobilized their army of elected officials and influencers across all platforms to claim credit.

  Meidas Touch

Aything good is due to Trump, anything bad is due to someone else, generally a Democrat. That's all you have to remember.

Well, Axios believes it...

  Israel, of course, was bombing innocent people until the very last minute.

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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 01/17/2025:  Quelle suprise.

UPDATE 01/18/2025:

UPDATE 01/19/2025:

UPDATE 01/21/2025:  So much for the ceasefire.