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United States President Donald Trump has announced on Truth Social that phase two of the Gaza peace plan “begins right now”. Tensions on both sides remain high as Israel announced it will close the Rafah border crossing into Gaza, as Hamas has failed to release the bodies of all dead hostages. US President Donald Trump called on Hamas to release the remaining bodies, and at the White House this morning made a strong demand that Hamas give up its weapons.

International politics can be boring at times, but the one constant in an ever-changing universe is the hubris of the European Union.With President Trump outlining the breakthrough negotiations for a peace agreement in Gaza, Emmanuel Macron (France), Keir Starmer (U.K) and Friedrich Merz (Germany) call an urgent meeting of EU Foreign Ministers to organize their strategy to take over the Gaza “Board of Peace.”EUROPE – Now that Donald Trump’s peace deal has the green light, European powers want a seat at the table.As the news broke that Israel and Hamas had agreed the first phase of a ceasefire plan, French...

We’ve learned nothing from Afghanistan and Iraq.On Oct 7, 2001, the United States began an ill-fated campaign to ‘nation build’ Afghanistan.Now 24 years after that anniversary and 2 years after the Oct 7 attacks by Hamas, we may be on the cusp of an even worse nation-building program in Gaza that seems to have learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous nation-building operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.Right down to resurrecting former UK PM Tony Blair to head ‘nation building’ in Gaza.Nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq failed for three reasons.The Bush administration believed that the problem in Afghanistan, Iraq and other...