In a brief on-camera meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said October 13, 2025, was clearly one of the most important days for world peace in the past 50 years.

“Only 50?” President Donald Trump piped up. “Maybe a hundred,” Rubio offered.

Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump meet Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi at Sharm el-Sheikh. Credit: AP

The light-hearted exchange spoke to an important question: what comes next? We cannot yet know if the day represented a true inflection point for conflict in the Middle East, or just another temporary break in the cycle.

Trump says it’s the end of 3000 years of fighting. We ought not let his preternatural gift for exaggeration take away from the significance of the moment: the i

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