In a moment of extraordinary geopolitical gravity, US president Donald Trump has unveiled a comprehensive plan to end the Gaza conflict – a proposal whose ambition, structure, and support represent a seismic shift in Middle Eastern diplomacy. But beneath its layered diplomacy lies a singular, inescapable truth: Trump is making it clear that Hamas must be eliminated, and the Palestinian movement reinvented – not merely reformed, but reversed. What he is offering is not a negotiation between equals, but an ultimatum wrapped in a pathway: disarm, deradicalise, and rebuild, or be dismantled by force.

‘This can be done the easy way, or it can be done the hard way, but it will be done,’ said Netanyahu

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, standing alongside president Trump in a joint pres

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