RT-Engels: 20-10-2025,
President Donald Trump embodies American political culture in its purest, most exaggerated form. His mix of blunt pragmatism, self-confidence, and showmanship is easily parodied, yet it perfectly mirrors the style that now defines US statecraft. At the ‘Peace Summit’ in Sharm el-Sheikh, he once again promised “eternal peace” in the Middle East and a final settlement of the region’s three-thousand-year conflict. The spectacle was classic Trump: loud, declarative, and aimed as much at headlines as at history.
But once the noise fades, what has really happened?
The new Gaza “deal,” negotiated for more than a year and hailed as a breakthrough, is hardly revolutionary. Prisoner exchanges between Israel and its opponents have been a recurring feature of the region’s politics for decades. They are controversial but familiar – rituals that temporarily ease tensions without changing the underlying reality.
What is different this time is the ambition behind the arrangement. Washington hopes to turn the Gaza exchange into the first step toward a wider realignment of regional power. The architects of this plan are drawing on Trump’s earlier experiment – the Abraham Accords – which sought to replace religious and historical antagonisms with a network of pragmatic, profit-based ties between Israel and the Gulf monarchies. The theory is that shared commercial interests can suppress ideological conflict.
For the Gulf states, whose ruling elites are increasingly defined by their wealth rather than their ideology, the argument has appeal. Trade, investment,