The start of the ceasefire would mark a major foreign policy win for both President Biden and President-elect Trump at the moment of transition between the two administrations. While Biden led the painstaking efforts to draft the detailed terms of the deal and rally international support behind it, Trump turned up pressure for it to cross the finish line. This included dispatching his pick for special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, to exert pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move forward with the deal.

It was a remarkable example of cooperation between the Biden and Trump teams, with a senior Biden administration official calling Witkoff’s involvement “quite effective.”

But it’s unclear how Trump’s team will follow through on holding together the full ceasefire deal, which requires further, indirect negotiations between Israeli and Hamas officials toward a permanent end of the war.

Under the terms of the deal, Israeli and Hamas officials are expected to reconvene by the 16th day of the ceasefire and work out the details to move to a second phase.

The second phase will constitute a permanent ceasefire, but must be agreed to to allow for the exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners.

Biden, in remarks delivered Wednesday, said that the first phase of the ceasefire is expected to hold as long as negotiators are talking with each other to get to the second phase, even if it extends beyond the six-week deadline.

But Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fl.), said the new administration will back Israel if it says it needs to restart military operations against Hamas.

Still, the pause in fighting is expected to bring relief to nearly 2 million Palestinians who have suffered 15 months of bombardment amid Israel’s war against Hamas

1,200 people were killed that day and 250 taken hostage. A week-long ceasefire at the end of November, 2023 allowed for the release of about 100 hostages.

>>1375023
>Biden said on Wednesday the deal matched his spring proposal.
So this is Biden's deal. Got it.

>>1375024
And while Israel’s military has eliminated much of Hamas’s top leadership, including the so-called architect of Oct. 7, Yahya Sinwar, more than half of the 46,000 Palestinians killed throughout the war were women and children, and U.S. officials say Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost.

Israeli forces have been accused of war crimes and labeled as carrying out a genocide by aid organizations. Israel, backed by the U.S., rejects these claims and blames Hamas for embedding itself among civilians and putting them in harm’s way.

U.S., Egyptian and Qatari officials, who mediated the ceasefire deal, have put incentives for both Hamas and Israel to stick to the deal.

Hamas is expected to get the release of 30 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails for each hostage it releases. Hamas holds about 98 hostages, living and dead, including three living Americans, the remains of four dead Americans, two Israelis who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, respectively, and the bodies of two Israeli soldiers held since a 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.

Among the group to be released in a second phase of the ceasefire include an American-Israeli, Edan Alexander, who was serving in the Israel Defense Forces when kidnapped on Oct. 7.

Humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip is expected to surge during the ceasefire, allowing the rehabilitation of civilian infrastructure, to include electricity, water, sanitation, telecommunications and roads. Supplies for civil defense, debris removal, and rubble clearance will also be delivered. At least 60,000 temporary housing units and 200,000 tents are listed as required for people who lost their homes.

>>1375025
No matter how you want to cut it, it went nowhere for 9 months under biden, and then Trump closed the deal in a week of effort.
These are facts.

>>1375027
>Same deal proposed last year
>Obviously it's the new guy and not the one who spent the last year trying to get both sides to agree
Sorry I know you spent the last few months building this house, but I placed the last brick so I basically built all of it.

>>1375028
According to witnesses, Trump’s envoy achieved more in one discussion to influence the prime minister than outgoing President Joe Biden had managed throughout the year.

>>1375030
>Witnesses
Can you name them?

>>1375032
I can name Steve Witkoff because he's literally the only person anybody's named in any report I've read, but that doesn't mean that Steve Witkoff was the only person present in the peace negotiations

>>1375034
No, I mean the people saying that Trump was doing more than Biden had all year. Surely this comes from an actual press release or address, and isn't just a random clickbait blurb thrown on with no source, right?

>>1375036
Do you have any press release or address that names all the people at the peace negotiations? I'd be happy to look through it for attribution if one exists. I don't think they generally name a lot of people at these things for security reasons

>>1375023
Taking credit for the work of others is how trump got to where he is.

>>1375037
So where does the claim Trump did everything better than Biden in 24 hours come from? It's certainly not in any of the press releases themselves, they just say they collaborated with the US to make the deal.

>>1375040
it comes from the new administration and the head troll elon. a torrent of lies will be dumped on us because the internet is dead

>>1375023
>Peace by Sunday
>19th January
>Biden will still be president for 24 hours
So that orange retard has fuck all to do with it. Thanks for admitting that. No Nobel Peace Prize for you, Don Old Fart. Good

>defeated leftoid sewing circle on /news/ all agreeing Trump dindunuffin while the world credits Trump for standing up to Israel

Womp womp, another day another cope post from the defeated leftoids

>>1375050
>it was real in my mind
You shouldn't be on this board.

>>1375050
>trump
>standing up for israel
LOL. LOL

>Womp womp
>>1375050 loves Shylily

>>1375056
>>1375055
>>1375053
>>1375043
Wow.
The lefties are having quite the melty over this.

>>1375074
Are the lefties in the room now?

>>1375074
The righties will have melties when the lefties point and laugh at the orange retard for four years. And with President of Vice Elongated Muskrat as the Retard-in-Chief and JD Weird , we'll have a modern day Bedlam for rightard Lolcows to give us schadenfreude.

>>1375078
That poster's idea of a "lefty" is anyone who criticizes Trump. You shouldn't reinforce his delusions.

>>1375079
>anyone who criticizes Trump
So many voters regretting their decision to vote Repubivan late last year. So many saying Trump's opinions re. Musko wanting millions of Indians with H1B visas entering US; Trump agrees, don't bother him about it. That orange thing appointing Elol the Lolcow as his Retard-in-Chief: thing so thin-skinned he couldn't take criticism from Asmongold and lost against him, proving he's an autistic retard that doesn't like admitting his opinions are wrong, then >>1375074 is as delusional & retarded as Muskrat.

>>1375084
If the election was held right now, with the promises Trump made after he won, he would lose.

>>1375085
Not doubting this but do you have a source?

>>1375087
Not really a statistical thing more of a natural conclusion; Trump won 49% to 48%. A major backtracking on the level he's been doing would've probably shifted that 1% to Harris' favor; they wouldn't even need to switch their vote to her.

Obviously no poll on this would be reliable but we're probably gonna see this in his approval ratings as time goes on.

Just a reminder that Hamas was created by Israel to undermine the Palestinian Authority and keep the Palestinians divided, just as Israel created ISIS to keep the Arab world in constant turmoil.

>>1375037
whataboutism. incapable of answering a question.

>>1375025
>So this is Biden's deal. Got it.
That he was powerless to enforce because he's so weak. A deal that wouldn't be possible under democrat leadership. This is why Russia gains territory every time one is in office. Trump hasn't even started his term yet and he's already accomplishing what the left can't.

>>1375028
>Sorry I know you spent the last few months building this house, but I placed the last brick so I basically built all of it.
lmao more like 'I designed the blueprint of this plan, but I didn't have the strength to start placing any bricks down until a chad Republican showed up at the work site to start construction.'

>>1375100
>That he was powerless to enforce because he's so weak.
>gets deal done anyway
Trump isn't the president right now.

>>1375074
Pretty much. They're already crying about how WAAAAAAAHHH IT WAS BIDEN'S IDEA WAAAAAAHHHH because they can't accept how pathetic they are. Four years and Biden hasn't accomplished a fucking thing, but now that Trump is taking over and getting shit done before his job even starts, guess who is going to be complaining about how Trump is taking credit for everything that Biden WOULD have done, but for some fucking odd reason couldn't accomplish any of it in the last four years.

Watch. We're going to hear four years of
>durr Trump's economy is only good because of Biden's measures
>hurr we're not at war because of moves Biden made
>derp derp derp immigration is down under Trump because of Biden.
I guaran-fucking-tee this is the complaining we're going to hear for the next four years.

>>1375102
>months of Biden pathetically asking Hamas to be nice
>nothing gets done
>Big Daddy Trump lays down a thick belt on the table and says they have until he gets into office to act right - or else
>suddenly hostages are being let go
>DUUUUUUUUUURRRRRR THIS WAS ALL THANKS TO BIDEN TRUMP HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Oh it's going to be a glorious four years.

>>1375104
it will be a glorious shitshow that i'm predicting will blunder from day one into a historic ignominious mess

>>1375101
>>1375103
>>1375104
This is so fucking delusional. At most, all Trump did was say "I will also abide by these terms". The only say he could've had in this was convincing hamas and israel he wouldn't just violate it as soon as he came into office.

>>1375106
you better get used to being told absurd terrible lies or it's going to be a long couple of years

>>1375106
>At most, all Trump did was say "I will also abide by these terms".
>“It will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out. I don’t have to say anymore, but that’s what it is,” Trump said
kek lefties are already lying to damage control this

>>1375110
pointing out your damage control isn't damage control but keep being retarded i guess

>>1375105
Oh yeah like it did last term. God it's going to suck being able to afford food and gasoline again. And no more wars?!? Fuck, we won't know what to do with ourselves anymore.

>>1375106
Didn't he also make a whole slew of public statements directly threatening US intervention against Hamas if the conflict were still to be going on by the time he was sworn into office?

>>1375111
>lying about what Trump said
>i-im not damage controlling
cope and seethe faggot

>>1375110
>“It will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out. I don’t have to say anymore, but that’s what it is,” Trump said
You realize the guy is a habitual liar, right?

>>1375112
trump caused the current war in israel by letting them expand into jerusalem. and i hope you survive bird flu and whichever other pandemic is coming

>>1375112
>no more wars
>Actively threatening to annex Greenland and the Panema canal
???

>>1375113
lmao he absolutely did, but the lefties here are so desperate to spin it that they have to lie and pretend he didn't say any of this - as if nobody can look this up in five seconds!

>>1375112
>God it's going to suck being able to afford food and gasoline again
If the president can change the price of gas, why didn't Trump make it a dollar a gallon during his 4 years? Or free?

>>1375113
Hamas likes having the US intervene lol. Every time Israel blows up a building full of palestinian civilians they get more recruits from their grieving families.

>>1375115
>You realize the guy is a habitual liar, right?
Like you?

>>1375120
>If the president can change the price of gas
Oh here we go again with the left pretending that executive orders for (Trump) or against (Biden) our domestic oil production has no impact on price. Lets go!

>>1375116
>trump caused the current war in israel by letting them expand into jerusalem.
Trump controls Israel?

>>1375123
>Local anon forgets the tariffs
Don't worry anon. I'm sure you'll offset none of the import costs. We'll just replace them with infrastructure we don't have and can't build.

>>1375122
0/10 poor quality post.

>>1375123
>our domestic oil production has no impact on price
There was more domestic oil production under Biden than Trump.

>>1375124
playing dumb about jared kushner? adorable shill anon

>>1375125
Yeah that's what I thought. Deflect away because you don't want to talk about all the decisions Biden made that caused gas to skyrocket. Hell last time I made a beautiful list that broke down everything in chronological order - only for a mod to delete the thread lmao.

>>1375130
so do oil companies pay you or are you just a submissive

>>1375126
>There was more domestic oil production under Biden than Trump.
That caught back up with the trend of production we were already on years later - after Biden reversed a lot of his decisions and got smacked down by judges. Turns out people don't like payin $5+ a gallon. Whodathought?

>>1375130
>you don't want to talk about all the decisions Biden made that caused gas to skyrocket
You obviously cannot into OPEC. Also gas is like 3.20 a gallon, what do you think it should be?

>>1375132
>Turns out people don't like payin $5+ a gallon.
I remember back in 2008 gas was that much and our president was a republican from Texas. But that was fine.

>>1375133
>Also gas is like 3.20 a gallon
Remember when it was $1.90 a gallon?
That was before three retarded regional conflicts and neocons blowing out the national debt to protect Israel.

>>1375131
Tell me how Biden's decisions to shut down multi-million dollar projects like Keystone (that even opponents admit at least 30% would be used domestically, despite being for "export only"), banning development in Alaska, banning in the Gulf (only for a judge to slap his hand), increasing the taxes, royalties, fees, etc. on companies, rejoining the Paris Accords and increasing EPA regulations, banning trade with a major oil producer, and pushing green energy deals while threatening multiple times to end all fossil fuel companies has no effect on the cost of oil.

Don't worry, I'll wait.

>>1375133
>You obviously cannot into OPEC.
Like when Biden begged OPEC to increase production and they told him to fuck off, so he had to go crawling on his hands and knees to American oil companies for help? lmao that's your leader. This is who you voted for.

>>1375136
tell us how you are a big oil shill. how do you feel about depletion tax

>>1375138
That's what I thought. You can't explain it. Next!

>>1375136
He didn't shut down keystone. He halted a single branch of the XL pipeline. The rest of it is still being used to transport tarsands to the southern parts of the United States from Canada.

>>1375139
oh my bad i meant depletion allowance. it's when you give oil companies free money. not sure why you'd enjoy being stolen from unless you were a shill

>>1375140
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-protecting-public-health-and-environment-and-restoring-science-to-tackle-climate-crisis/

Retard.

>>1375142
you are a massive retard. we know. get a better job if you'd like to prove me wrong

>>1375142
They Keystone XL pipeline is literally a branching segment of the larger pipeline network.

They didn't stop using the network. They only stopped the construction of a single branch of pipe. That's it.

>>1375023
Hopefully this stupid ass conflict ends and our tax dollars don't go to Israel slaughtering Palestinians and Christians but it goes to ending the immigrant invasion of America and Jewish domination of our Government

Hopefully Trump makes a change like he did in 2016, instead of being part of the establishment

>>1375145
Sorry, more h1b1 visas. You're losing your job to an indian indentured servant.

>>1375145
Good post

>>1375143
I'm sorry, I was busy eating a sandwich. Did you make a valid point yet? No? Okay thanks for being a waste of text in a reply.

>>1375144
Which was in development for years, being delayed by Obama, costing billions of dollars, and got shut down by Biden. So not only do we lose on the domestic oil supply, this also sends a message to every oil company in the US that Biden can kill a multi-billion dollar, several years in development, project on a whim. And then we wonder why oil companies aren't developing new infrastructure while a democrat is in office, and how that affects oil costs.

>>1375148
you were eating dick. oligarch dick to be exact. and it's pretty disgusting anon, you should stop

>>1375148
>So not only do we lose on the domestic oil supply
We didn't lose anything. The amount of tarsands we receive from Canada has remained the same.

>>1375136
If only there was a way to search the entire internet for information instead of asking anonymous people on a japanese image board.

>>1375149
You people are weird

>>1375151
He's right, and if that's the claim you're implying you really should provide evidence of not him

>>1375152
i'm weird because i'm not a tool for billionaires? you should reevaluate your life anon

>>1375153
i didn't claim anything and will not do his research for him.

>>1375155
You are weird because you talk about their penises you weirdo

>>1375159
you are weird for being so pro-billionaire that i can't help but feel your affinity for them is approaching the extra-platonic

>>1375142
>>1375140
Biden fucked up so hard, but it will be fixed when we take Canada as a territory. Keystone XL V2 here we come. We'll make it good again.

poe's law is dead

>>1375150
>over 700,000 barrels a day directly to Texas refineries gone
>We didn't lose anything.

>>1375151
>If only there was a way to search the entire internet for information
Oh like when you cunts were saying
>At most, all Trump did was say "I will also abide by these terms".
when talking to Hamas, and then five seconds later I pulled up a quote of Trump threatening Hamas? lol fucking retard.

>>1375163
texas billionaires lost, are you one of them?

>>1375165
Trump threatening Hamas a few months back means jack shit. He's threatened everyone. He's threatened half our trade partners. His threats are just as worthless as his promises, like those times he promised to "Lock her up!" (he didn't) and that "Mexico will pay for it!" (they didn't).

The only thing he has to offer is that he'll keep to the terms they agreed to when he takes Biden's seat.

>>1375167
Three things.
One:
>durr Trump isn't threatening anyone
>a few moments later
>Trump threatens everyone all the time! It means nothing!

Two:
>Trump threatens Hamas to release before he gets into office
>Hamas releases hostages
>durr Trump's threats had nothing to do with Hamas complying!

Three:
I fucking called it when I said dems are going to whine and bitch how Trump is taking credit for their ideas - that for unknown reasons they couldn't implement when Biden was running things. And sure as shit:
>The only thing he has to offer is that he'll keep to the terms they agreed to when he takes Biden's seat.
Predictable as always.

>>1375168
tldr

>>1375169
tl;dr democrats are seething.

>>1375165
>talking about oil prices
>talking about hamas

all you do is whataboutism

>>1375168
Good post

>>1375167
>Trump threatening Hamas a few months back means jack shit
Trump’s envoy achieved more in one discussion to influence the prime minister than outgoing President Joe Biden had managed throughout the year.
Fact.

>>1375173
>Fact
According to whom?

>>1375172
Downvoted

>>1375023
Yay the mud people will stop bombing each for 10 minutes, then they'll start again but we're happy anyway!

>>1375168
Trump is literally taking credit for what Biden did.

>>1375168
>that for unknown reasons they couldn't implement when Biden was running things
It's almost like they've been negotiating over this for a year.

Biden literally confirmed it was his deal lmao. Trump didn't do shit other than also agree to it.

>>1375177
>>1375178
And the plan was to wait until now, after Trump made his threat, to release the hostages? Even if this were true (which it isn't) this means that Biden's plan depended on Trump winning the election.

>>1375179
damn that's some mental gymnastics.

>>1375177
>no you see. a year and a half of nothing happening with four UN vetos in Israel's favor was totally Biden's work to secure the ceasefire on the way out.

>>1375180
Care to explain why Hamas didn't release shit until Trump threatened them?
>of course you can't

>>1375181
This guy gets it.

>>1375182
do your own book report.

>>1375181
Literally this. 1000000%

>>1375182
Didn't Trump threaten them like months ago? Why did it take them until now then if it happens so fucking instantly?

>>1375186
Did he? Let's see a link.

>>1375186
Also I love how we're still going down this line of pretending Trump's threats had nothing to do with Hamas acting the way they are today, but Biden's sloth-like approach was totally working guys! Slow and steady wins the race!

>>1375188
But are they still eating cats and dogs in Ohio, or are we past that issue now?

>>1375189
And you say all I do is whataboutism? kek

>>1375187
>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62757dd55no
Here's last month. If he's so good at negotiating and such a threatening presence, why didn't they give the hostages up a month ago?

>>1375182
The hostages are dead, idiot. Israel turned Gaza into a parking lot. This is all a PR stunt.

>>1375190
You're talking to the wrong anon.

>>1375192
>"If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity."
>Hamas is letting hostages go before Trump takes office
>Trump has nothing to do with this. It was all Biden's strategic decisions (that nobody can explain) that caused releases.

>>1375195
the hostages are not being freed though.

>>1375196
>Hamas has agreed to turn over 3 of its Israeli prisoners

>>1375197
You can't be serious.

>>1375197
so there will still be hostages held after january 20 2025

>>1375199
If there are then there will be "all hell to pay". They have until the 20th. Either way Trump has made more progress, before even entering office, than Biden has. Which is why the left can't stop crying and seething about it, and are trying to claim that Trump is taking credit.

>>1375197
So they're actually not complying with Trump's threat at all. They're still keeping hostages after the 20th, the only thing that's changed is a cease to active conflict... which has always been Biden's main goal, while Trump was more focused on hostage release even if he had to burn Gaza to the ground.

>>1375200
>Either way Trump has made more progress, before even entering office, than Biden has.
100 hostages were released as part of a deal last year, a month after they were taken. In other words, months of threats and he accomplished less than what Biden did in a month.

>>1375200
>Trump has made more progress, before even entering office, than Biden has
But as we sit here now literally nothing has happened. And Trump has said many things that never came true or were straight up lies.

What does "hell to pay" mean anyways? Trump is going to drag USA directly into a war?

>>1375197
Why isn't anyone upset about what they are trading them for, which is 90 women and children
Israel must have hundreds of thousands of hostages of their own that conveniently nobody in the US talked about until the terms of this peace agreement were decided

>>1375203
>What does "hell to pay" mean anyways?
It means there is now a peace agreement in Gaza thanks to trump.

>>1375205
>thanks to trump.

because he told you.

>>1375206
>because he told you
Lol idk why you think I'm such an important person, but I promise you I've never been in communication with the president about anything

Lots of big changes upcoming over the next week.
1. TikTok shuts down on Sunday
2. Trump is inaugurated on Monday
3. US debt ceiling will be breached on Tuesday
4. Deportations expected to begin on Wednesday
5. Neo-Nazi socialists will be imploding Thursday

Big week coming up anons, it's gonna be a big week...

>>1375208
Oh wait let me revise that
1. Peace deal in Israel on Saturday (US time, but Sunday in Israel)
2. TikTok shuts down on Sunday
3. Trump is inaugurated on Monday
4. US debt ceiling will be breached on Tuesday
5. Deportations expected to begin on Wednesday
6. Neo-Nazi socialists will be imploding Thursday

>>1375209
1. Peace deal in Israel on Saturday (US time, but Sunday in Israel), Neo-Nazi socialists imploding
2. TikTok shuts down on Sunday, Neo-Nazi socialists imploding
3. Trump is inaugurated on Monday, Neo-Nazi socialists imploding
4. US debt ceiling will be breached on Tuesday, Neo-Nazi socialists imploding
5. Deportations expected to begin on Wednesday, Neo-Nazi socialists imploding
6. Neo-Nazi socialists imploding continues on a rolling daily basis for the foreseeable future.

>>1375213
1. Peace deal in Israel on Saturday (US time, but Sunday in Israel with Biden still president till 24 hours from then), Trumptards imploding
2. TikTok isn't shut down on any day, Trumptards imploding
3. Trump is inaugurated on Monday, everyone points and laughs at the Bedlam that is the senile/autistic retards that are Trump & Muskrat. Trumptards & Elol ballwashers imploding
4. US debt ceiling will be breached on Tuesday Trump takes the credit as Muskrat always does for what others do, Trumptards imploding
5. Elol wants millions of Indians with H1B visas in US: Trump agrees, don't bother him about it, Trumptards already imploding
6. Trumptards imploding at everyone else pointing and laughing continues on a rolling daily basis for the foreseeable future. Trumptards go into meltdown four years from now when their cult dies.
ftfy.