, Columnist
The Gaza Ceasefire Won’t Win Back Young Americans for Israel
The beginning of a new relationship.
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Huzzah, hosanna and hallelujah: To US President Donald Trump for brokering a ceasefire that could, possibly, mark the beginnings of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. To the hostages and their families, who are reunited at last. To the Gazans who can finally face their trauma without new bombs dropping on them. And yet, and yet.
It may seem saturnine at this moment of hope to dwell on more slow-moving developments, but those exist. One is the evolving relationship between Israel and the US, the most important international bond for the former and among the most fraught for the latter. After two years of war in Gaza, a question mark hangs over this affinity.