Posted on 05/28/2026 6:48:31 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The negotiations between the United States and Iran to end their war are following President Trump’s familiar playbook for resolving a Middle East crisis: agree to a cease-fire and deal with the toughest problems later.
Analysts say the approach has had mixed results in the Gaza Strip, where Mr. Trump brokered a truce last year between Israel and Hamas, the Iranian-backed militant group. Plans for a so-called Phase 2 agreement — under which Hamas was to lay down its arms and Israel would allow Gaza to be rebuilt after a devastating war — have stalled. A similar approach in U.S. talks with Iran would run the same risks.
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In Gaza, U.S. negotiators initially made good progress. The first part of the agreement last October secured the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas, a partial Israeli military withdrawal, and a surge in shipments of food and medicine into the territory for desperate Palestinians.
But the Trump administration has hit a wall in resolving the tougher questions that were delayed to the second phase of discussions. Hamas has not laid down its weapons, an international force is not about to be deployed to Gaza, and a new Palestinian administration has not taken charge of rebuilding the enclave’s devastated cities.
Instead, Israel continues to bombard Gaza on a near-daily basis, and Hamas is consolidating its power in the half of the territory that it controls. A committee of Palestinian technocrats that was supposed to take charge of governing the territory has remained in Egypt. And rather than rebuilding Gaza, aid groups say many Palestinians there are still living in rat-infested tent camps amid rubble.
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Trump’s Board of Peace has ‘zero dollars’
And no foreign troops have been sent, as promised.
Plans for the Gaza International Stabilization Force are in question as troop pledges stall
Is Trump still playing 8th Dimensional chess with this? And where are Witkoff and Kushner who negotiated this peace plan?
NY Slimes articles are actual half a$$ed pieces of propaganda
Witkoff and Kushner are probably under serious protection. The y do not bow to the media.
So what is inaccurate about this story? Has the money arrived in Gaza yet or not?
They only bow to themselves and their Swiss bank accounts apparently.
You’re so full of it...
The Mullahs and Hamas are both playing a very long game, where the whole society can be reduced to cinders as long as they are still fighting.
Trump cannot afford that long of a game. He has to acknowledge in both cases that an end point is not possible by negotiation with the Mullahs or Hamas.
Bkmk
I expect no less from the commie NYT. Propaganda all day, every day.
BTW TR, are you vying to replace ASH?
Donald Trump pitches 'Project Sunrise' to turn Gaza into resort
The Trump administration is pitching “Project Sunrise,” a plan that will reportedly rebuild the Gaza Strip into a “futuristic coastal destination,” according to a Friday report by the Wall Street Journal.
It noted that US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, along with US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and two other White House aides, drafted a proposal comprising 32 PowerPoint slides to transform Gaza.
The presentation, depicted as “sensitive but unclassified,” was shown to Turkey, Egypt, and several investors and wealthy Gulf kingdoms, according to the report.
This reconstruction would cost $112.1 billion over 10 years, according to the WSJ, which cited the draft proposal. The US would provide $60b. in grants, with the plan stating that Gaza would eventually be able to self-fund many projects. The WSJ also notes that the presentation doesn’t specify which countries or companies would fund the reconstruction, nor where Gaza’s residents would live during the rebuilding. This has caused some US officials to express doubt about the plan, with some saying that Hamas will refuse to disarm in the first place.
The proposal was developed over 45 days, with Kushner and Witkoff enlisting the help of senior White House aide Josh Gruenbaum.
So where's the resort?
Poor little Bot Timber Bunny 🐰 is having Sadz again.
Wake up and go back to bed. 😃
“proposal”
“It noted that US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, along with US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and two other White House aides, drafted a proposal comprising 32 PowerPoint slides to transform Gaza.”
“This reconstruction would cost $112.1 billion over 10 years, according to the WSJ, which cited the draft proposal. The US would provide $60b. in grants”
I think four places in a lunatic asylum would be more appropriate.
I suggested yesterday that Trump turn over negotiations to the Israelis.
The Iranians know the War Powers Resolution makes Trump into a toothless tiger.
More likely they got their cut of the dough and are staying quiet
Go after some Dems...Witkoff and Kushner have done well.
What utter BS this is. The headline says it all “Echoes of Half-Finished Gaza Deal”, which means that Aaron Boxerman either does not have a clue, or is trying to create his own story. BTW, Boxerman, an MOA is not an agreement. By definition it is a framework, a**hole, and Trump has stated 1000 times the four principles that are baseline, which Iran has rejected every single time. So, he is delaying at the request of the Saudis and the Emirates, and countered them by saying join the Abraham Accords and then we can talk. The NYT is no longer even a useful rag. It is a propaganda operation for the enemies of the US.
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