After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted US President Donald Trump’s invitation to join the peace conference in Egypt, several Arab leaders threatened to boycott the event. The threat worked, and Netanyahu canceled his participation in the summit, despite Trump’s encouragement for him to attend.
The next phase is not military but cognitive. Jerusalem defines the reality before Doha and Ankara rewrite it in Hamas’s language. If they are allowed to sit at the table, the pause will become a defeat; if they are excluded, a new order can emerge: clear victory, sovereignty without intermediaries, and deterrence that endures.
US President Donald Trump laid out his vision for a new Middle East following the end of the war, declaring that “it should now be clear to everyone across this region that decades of encouraging terror and extremism, jihadism and antisemitism have brought nothing but suffering, agony and failure.”
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto may arrive in Israel this week in what would be a historic first-ever visit by a leader of the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, which has no formal diplomatic relations with Israel.
During their joint ride from Ben-Gurion Airport to the Knesset, Trump invited Netanyahu to accompany him to the summit, which is expected to address the day after the war in Gaza and regional developments.
