A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to Achieve

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1. As a long-overdue ceasefire takes hold amid the ruins of Gaza, it is impossible not to feel immense relief that this terrible war may at last be ending. During President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Jerusalem, he hailed “the historic dawn of a new Middle East.” But the Trump Administration cannot just declare an end to what the President calls “3,000 years” of conflict and move on to its domestic project of undermining the rule of law. “History resists the shortcut,” David Remnick writes.

   The idyll of a “new Middle East” in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumphalist view is one in which, “owing to his Churchillian leadership, the threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Yemen, and Iran are all diminished or defeated,” Remnick writes. “As for Netanyahu’s failure to safeguard the country on October 7th? All is forgotten.” This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself. It also overlooks the rage bred into the bones of young Palestinians, who have lost family members and friends but not their insistence on dignity and a home. “Real progress in the region, real justice and stability, will require healing, constancy, imagination, and endurance—day after day, year after year, long past any one Administration,” Remnick writes. Read more: [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/a-new-middle-east-is-easier-to-declare-than-to-achieve](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/a-new-middle-east-is-easier-to-declare-than-to-achieve) 

2. Bit too late bro. Seems like it’s already been violated.

3. The reason for the Israeli attacks, which were just now authorized to inform the public, is that Hamas fired anti-tank weapons towards IDF soldiers, resulting in the death of two soldiers.

4. > [Netanyahu’s] reelection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself. It also overlooks the rage bred into the bones of young Palestinians, who have lost family members and friends but not their insistence on dignity and a home.

   Netanyahu ignores a lot of things, not surprising for a politician; However, for most Israelis after Oct 7th, the choice between defeating Hamas and being liked in Dublin or Brussels is not really a choice at all.

   Most would also find it hard to believe, following Oct 7th, that Palestinian youth lacked rage.

   tl;dr – no geopolitics or even just politics, mostly virtue signaling.

5. These so called “new middle east” or peace will be relevant only when terror organization such as Hamas will cease to exist.

   I know, it’s sounds insane, complex and straight forward at the same time, but that’s pretty much all that sane person has to say.

6. Eh, it is going to take a long time. The Sykes Picot’s colonial carve outs (Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, etc.) are still in the development stage of obtaining a civic identity, some minority groups like Kurds, Alawites, Assyrians, etc. are trapped inside states without much sovereignty. The Baathist Dictatorship Structure is a de-facto design to keep the country together due to the friction in culture, religion, etc., all of the members of the state are under the tyranny of a Vanguard Party so sectarian tension is sealed.

   It is sort of similar to how Poland was held together under the dictatorship of Marshal Piłsudski or Yugoslavia under Broseph Tito.

7. That’s the GOP plan for all foreign policy. Create a mess. Declare mission accomplished. Leave.

   Of course, then Dems have to come in and clean up the mess and voters blame them for not cleaning it up fast enough.

8. Cheese fries are easier to declare than to achieve. Doesn’t mean they’re impossible, nor that you want to live there.

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