Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were hesitant to commend President Donald Trump for the ceasefire deal during a town hall on Wednesday.

The guns have gone quiet over Gaza — for now. After years of darkness, the region has entered a new phase shaped by President Donald Trump’s decisive leadership and the landmark 20‑point Gaza peace deal. Hostages have come home, Hamas has been driven underground, and an American‑backed peace architecture has emerged where fire once raged.  

For the first time in decades, Israelis and Arabs alike can glimpse something extraordinary: a path forward. Yet history reminds us that in the Middle East, every dawn carries both promise and peril. Which road will this new dawn take? 

In the most hopeful scenario, Trump’s peace‑through‑strength doctrine takes root across the region. Arab nations once divided by ideology are now united by opportunity. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates invest in Gaza’s reconstruction. Egypt and Jordan join a multinational stabilization force. Israeli innovation fuses with Gulf capital to create a "New Abraham Corridor" stretching from Haifa to Mumbai — a network of trade, fiber and trust. 

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If momentum continues, the Middle East could experience its most dynamic decade of growth in modern history, a true dividend of deterrence where strength sustains peace. This is the world imagined in Trump’s vision: when America leads with conviction, peace and prosperity follow. 

President Donald Trump signs the agreement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh,........

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