Jan. 14: Trump Embraces Biden Ceasefire Deal

After all the drama of the past eight months, then, it would seem we re back with the Team Obama-Biden plan, in which Hamas will not be releasing the hostages by inauguration day and Israel will be ceding de facto control of Gaza back to Hamas and then facilitating its reconstruction. To put the cherry on top, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that he expects the Palestinian Authority to regain a foothold in postwar Gaza, which will involve the PA inviting international partners to help establish and run an interim administration responsible for running key civil sectors in Gaza such as banking, water, energy, health and civil coordination with Israel, per TOI. Part of that administration, naturally, will be a U.S.-trained, -funded, and -equipped PA security force for Gaza a version of the PAF mocked by Tablet s Tony Badran in his essay on The Ottoman American Empire.

So what the hell is going on? And if it s what it looks like, why would Trump or Bibi agree to it? To help understand these and other questions, we reached out to some of the sharpest minds in Tablet s extended universe.

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None of this sounds good to me, but we’ll see.