Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first part of Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza. It is the biggest breakthrough for peace in the two-year conflict , which has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

It is indelibly associated with Donald Trump, who is open about his desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Not everybody agrees he deserves it. Critics point to his notoriously combative political style, his attempts to deploy the US military to his own cities on seemingly spurious grounds, and they say his peacemaking efforts are significantly oversold.

The counter-argument, often made by Trump himself, is that he has helped end numerous conflicts including ones between India and Pakistan and Thailand and Cambodia. Then there are the 2020 Abraham Accords, which normalised diplomatic relati

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