Biden or Trump: Who should we thank for the ceasefire in Gaza?

US President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20, both want to take credit for the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

In the wake of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, outgoing US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, who returns to office on Monday, both raced to take credit for what they hope will be a major diplomatic success. It is a deal, however, that could still collapse at any moment.

“Is that a joke?”

US President Joe Biden responded curtly on Wednesday to a journalist who asked whether he or Trump deserved more credit for securing a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

But President-elect Donald Trump took a different view.

“This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November,” he wrote on his social network Truth Social, celebrating victory even before the White House had announced the conclusion of the talks.

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The agreement, which was approved by Israel’s security cabinet on Friday, should be the first step to ending the bloody war that has been raging since Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel.

Reagan and Carter 2.0?

"This is all the work of Joe Biden,” he said.


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