Triumphant Trump Basks In Deserved Accolades In The Middle East

It was a good day in the Middle East. The fighting stopped, hostages and prisoners were reunited with their families in Israel and the Gaza Strip, and there was a real sense that there might just be a new beginning for a region mired in conflict for generations.

And it was a particularly good day for Donald Trump, who was instrumental in making all of this happen, and who got the kind of accolades that he normally only imagines.

The big question now is whether it will last.

In remarks to Israel’s parliament, the US president talked about “peace for all eternity,” and the “start of a grand concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region.”

That may be a bit optimistic, especially because it seems as though both Israel’s government and the Hamas terrorist organization wouldn’t exactly be heartbroken if the other side violated the terms of Trump’s peace deal… and drew the US president’s ire in the process.

As we noted before, it doesn’t matter all that much how or why the agreement came together. There is good reason to believe that Trump’s primary motivation is that elusive Nobel Peace Prize he has been chasing, which means that he has a vested personal interest in the ceasefire holding and both sides continuing to work on a lasting deal.

And, as all involved know, the president is highly vindictive, so crossing him seems like a bad idea.

So, if the peace holds, does that put him in the running for getting that Nobel Prize in 2026? We don’t think so and have our own thoughts on the matter.

But those are problems for another day.

For now, world leaders got to come together and pat each other, and especially Trump, on the back.

The US president received the highest civilian honors that Israel and Egypt can bestow and even managed to sound magnanimous.

“Let me also convey my tremendous appreciation for all of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world that came together to press Hamas to set the hostages free and to send them home,” he said in his address to the Knesset. “We had a lot of help. We had a lot of help from a lot of people that you wouldn’t suspect, and I want to thank them very much for that. It’s an incredible triumph for Israel and the world to have all of these nations working together as partners in peace.”

Of course, Trump also managed to make it weird.

Instead of delivering brief remarks and getting his standing ovation, he rambled on for an hour, took some shots at his Democratic predecessors, seemed to discuss his family’s private business with Indonesia’s president, hawked US-made weapons, and asked Israel’s president to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Overall, however, it was a very good day… for peace, for the Middle East, and for Trump.