Very happy to see a deal reached, hopefully the deal holds and both societies can move forward. Still a ways to go to get to stage 2 and stage 3 of the deal. I am optimistic. So many question marks remain on how things will unfold. Does Hamas stay in power? Does Bibi survive another election? Unfortunately I think both answers will be a yes but I would love to be proven otherwise.
Interesting comments from this US official. Obviously the weakening of Hezbollah and fall of Assad have major parts to play in all this. I find the last part of the article so wild, supposedly in negotiations over the last week in Qatar, negotiations were happening in one building with the Americans/Israelis on one floor and Hamas on the floor below with Qatari and Egyptian officials passing notes between them. I find that kind of hilarious and something straight out of a movie.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/livebl...s-toward-deal/