{"id":316560,"date":"2025-10-10T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316560"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:51:50","slug":"lets-talk-abouttrumps-gaza-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316560","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk About\u2026Trump\u2019s Gaza Ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Off-Guardian \u2013 Oct 9, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Big News yesterday was that both sides of the conflict in Gaza have agreed to the first stages of a ceasefire plan put forward by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking news says the remaining hostages, having somehow escaped being blown up in the indiscriminate bombardment of a tiny city enclave, will be released on Monday as part of a prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is expecting to begin pulling their forces out of Gaza within hours, with a resumption of aid deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>What are we to make of this?<\/p>\n<p>It depends how the narrative unfolds. My prediction is that this ceasefire will be broken, with both sides pointing fingers, but the general blame falling on the IDF.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or it holds or not, it will have interesting knock-on effects for the Trump White House, because this is very much \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s Ceasefire\u201d, which is noteworthy in itself.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what the BBC called it. And the Guardian. And the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/08\/world\/middleeast\/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-deal.html\"> New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his Official Statement, <em>Sir<\/em> Keir Starmer called it exactly that:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I welcome the news that a deal has been reached on the first stage of President Trump\u2019s peace plan for Gaza. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LIlo8103aJ\">pic.twitter.com\/LIlo8103aJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Keir_Starmer\/status\/1976169698791395611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even CNN is giving Trump some partial credit for it, at the same time asking why this couldn\u2019t be achieved under Biden:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Even CNN can&#8217;t spin this story about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Abby Phillip asks Dan Goldman: &#8220;Why was this not doable under President Biden?&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r86iPghH0k\">pic.twitter.com\/r86iPghH0k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Defiant L\u2019s (@DefiantLs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefiantLs\/status\/1976231161832800348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Nobel Peace Prize buzz has picked back up, either for Trump or maybe Greta Thunberg \u2013 another team-choosing exercise, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>But what do you think?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will the ceasefire hold?<\/li>\n<li>If not, who will break it and how?<\/li>\n<li>Will Donald or Greta win the Nobel Peace Prize? Will they share it?<\/li>\n<li>Will they begin the rebuilding Gaza?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2025\/10\/09\/lets-talk-about-trumps-gaza-ceasefire\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question is not whether the Gaza ceasefire will hold, although that\u2019s unlikely. No, the question is whether the ceasefire will aid Trump\u2019s bid for the Nobel Peace Prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":231860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316562,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316560\/revisions\/316562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}