larry johnson says that the gaza cease fire credit belongs to cheeto;

Gotta give credit where credit is due. Donald Trump scored a peace-goal even before being sworn in. While Joe Biden is insisting, I did that, those whose mental faculties are still intact understand that it was Trump’s intervention that brought this about. Whether it is a genuine ceasefire and brings peace to Gaza remains to be seen. For now, the Palestinians are celebrating and the extremist Zionists are grumbling.

I think this agreement, and the events leading up to it, is a cautionary tale about not drawing too many conclusions from what Trump says in public. On the public side of the ledger, Trump accepted a large donation from Miriam Adelson, which most observers concluded that Trump was going to go stronger for Israel than Joe Biden. He then nominated a slew of officials with pro-Zionist records, such as Michael Waltz, Steven Witkoff and Marco Rubio. Finally, Trump vowed, I will rain down hell on Hamas, if a deal to release the hostages was not in place prior to January 20th.

But then Trump threw a curve ball and posted a snippet of Jeffrey Sach’s speech at the Cambridge Union last November, where Sach’s blistered Natanyahu. That was a gut punch for the pro-Zionist crowd. Then, the biggest surprise of all, Steve Witkoff — a devout Jew and strong supporter of Israel — entered the fray under orders from Donald Trump and compelled Netanyahu to accept the deal. We do not know what was said in the Witkoff / Netanyahu meeting last Friday in Jerusalem, but we know the result — Netanyahu caved after 14 months of resisting a deal with Hamas..........more.......