cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37048680

William Christou in Jerusalem Fri 3 Oct 2025 19.37 EDT

Donald Trump ordered Israel to “immediately” stop bombing Gaza as he welcomed Hamas’s partial acceptance of his ultimatum to end the nearly two-year war.

Hamas has agreed to release all hostages in return for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, as well as surrender governing power in the Gaza Strip, in accordance with Trump’s plan.

In a statement on Friday evening, the Palestinian militant group asked for further negotiations on other parts of the plan, and did not say whether it would lay down its arms – a key part of Trump’s proposal unveiled on Monday.

Despite the qualified response by Hamas, Trump said in a post on Truth Social: “Based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE."

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

Trump... ordered Netanyahu to cease fire? What are the chances Israel agrees to the deal? I'm seeing a lot of conditional statements.

Don't get me wrong, peace would be great. Exchanging hostages would be great, too. If Trump can pull that off, I'll give him his flowers for that. But I have many doubts that the sides will actually reach an agreement if only because Trump said they will.

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    [–] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Nice, they called Netanyahu's bluff. Now watch him torpedo his own peace proposal.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship (a spy ship), USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War.[2] The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian NSA employee), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship.[3] At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nautical miles (47.2 km; 29.3 mi) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.[1][4]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Netanyahu can't end this war without going down in his corruption trial.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    This is his play for his vaunted Nobel Peace Prize. I don't think Bibi is gonna help him.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    "Trump orders"? So he could have ordered it at any time, then?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Prisoners*

    Hamas has prisoners, it's the propaganda that calls them hostages. If you want to call them hostages, you should call the prisoners that Israel has hostages as well.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Hamas has prisoners, it’s the propaganda that calls them hostages. If you want to call them hostages, you should call the prisoners that Israel has hostages as well.

    Actually, propaganda is what you are doing.

    A hostage is someone :

    1. That isn't sentenced for anything.

    2. That can not be precisely located anywhere.

    3. That doesn't know if he will be released or killed by his captors.

    For instance, Nelson Mandela wasn't a hostage. He was a political prisoner.

    (A political prisoner is still a prisoner)

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the Hostages out safely and quickly! Right now, it’s far too dangerous to do that.

    Meaning that as soon as the hostages are out the bombing can continue?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    What Trump doesn’t understand because he’s an ignorant idiot is that Netanyahu needs this war to keep power and it has nothing to do with hostages or anything but that for him anymore. And his far right crony government wants more land for their murderous expansionism. I will be shocked if this changes anything.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I swear to god if Trump figures out a way to actually get Israel to stop this shit I am gonna be so fucking confused I won’t know whether to shit or wind my watch. I’d probably just have to shit on my watch.

    Not that the Cheeto Bandito is likely to but still…

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